CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0990

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-28
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 web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.

Affected configurations

• symantec enterprise firewall 6.5.2 • symantec enterprise firewall 7.0 • symantec raptor firewall 6.5 • symantec raptor firewall 6.5.3 • symantec velociraptor 500 • symantec velociraptor 700 • symantec velociraptor 1000 • symantec velociraptor 1100 • symantec velociraptor 1200 • symantec velociraptor 1300 • symantec gateway security 5110 • symantec gateway security 5200 • symantec gateway security 5300

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