CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0957
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The default configuration of BlackICE Agent 3.1.eal and 3.1.ebh has a high tcp.maxconnections setting, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of connections to the BlackICE system that consumes more resources than intended by the user.
Affected configurations
• iss blackice agent 3.1eal
• iss blackice agent 3.1ebh
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0114.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9405.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0114.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9405.php Patch, Vendor Advisory