A new netfilter version 1.2.7 has been released. The ebuild of 1.2.6a is fine to be duplicated as iptables-1.2.7-r1.ebuild. I tested it on my system. But I havent write access to the portage tree. Please update it ;) Regards, Christian Parpart.
*** Bug 6582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Commited, thanks for finding this.