CVE-2004-0986: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Iptables before 1.2.11, under certain conditions, does not properly load the required modules at system startup, which causes the firewall rules to fail to load and protect the system from remote attackers.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.0.2 only; version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; …
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_3.0 only
• Suse Suse Iptables: version 1.2.11 only

Published 2005-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.