CVE-2003-0856: Stephen Hemminger Iproute

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

iproute 2.4.7 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

Affected products

• Stephen Hemminger Iproute: up to and including 2.4.7

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.