CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1201

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

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 4.3.3 • ibm aix 5

References