Description
IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.
Published: 2002-10-15
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-1187 IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.
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Ibm Secureway Firewall
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:28.174Z

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

Link: CVE-2002-1203

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Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2002-1203

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