CVE-2002-1203

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

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

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-28 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:24:00

Affected Software

IBM Secureway Firewall 4.2

4.2

IBM Secureway Firewall 4.2.1

4.2.1

References

20021009 Flood ACK packets cause an IBM SecureWay FireWall DoS

secureway-tcp-flood-dos(10249)

Vendor Advisory

5924

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