National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-1201
Original release date:10/28/2002
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#102345
Name: VU#102345
External Source: BID
Name: 5925
External Source: XF
Name: aix-tcp-flood-dos(10326)
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20021009 Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS
Type: Advisory
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY31641
