CVE-2002-0046

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Linux kernel, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a series of fragmented ICMP packets that generate an ICMP TTL Exceeded response, which includes portions of the memory in the response packet.

Linux kernel, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a series of fragmented ICMP packets that generate an ICMP TTL Exceeded response, which includes portions of the memory in the response packet.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2002-01-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:30:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.20.1

2.6.20.1

References

5394

RHSA-2002:007

20020120 remote memory reading through tcp/icmp

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

icmp-read-memory(7998)

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