CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1203

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
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm secureway firewall 4.2 • ibm secureway firewall 4.2.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References