CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-11360

MediumCVSS 4.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.24%

82th percentile - higher than 82% of all known CVEs

Summary

A buffer overflow in iptables-restore in netfilter iptables 1.8.2 allows an attacker to (at least) crash the program or potentially gain code execution via a specially crafted iptables-save file. This is related to add_param_to_argv in xshared.c.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause a program crash or gain code execution, which may lead to compromise of system integrity or takeover of the system.

Recommendation

Update iptables to a version newer than 1.8.2 that includes a fix for this issue.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A buffer overflow in iptables-restore in netfilter iptables 1.8.2 allows an attacker to (at least) crash the program or potentially gain code execution via a specially crafted iptables-save file. This is related to add_param_to_argv in xshared.c.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS