Description
The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.
Published: 2004-09-01
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0979 The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.
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Symantec Enterprise Firewall Gateway Security Raptor Firewall Velociraptor
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:12:16.897Z

Reserved: 2002-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0990

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-10-28T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0990

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