CVE-2002-1201 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.

Published: 2002-10-15

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-1185	IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01592.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925

History

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Subscriptions

Ibm Aix

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-10-15T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:27.858Z

Reserved: 2002-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1201

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2002-1201

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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