CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-2124
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-12-31
- 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 recvn and sendn functions in nylon 0.2 do not check when the recv function call returns 0, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) by closing the connection while recv is executing.
Affected configurations
• nylon nylon 0.2
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-394 Unexpected Status Code or Return Value weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7281 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.security-express.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0146.html www.security-express.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5938 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10334 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/7281 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.security-express.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0146.html www.security-express.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5938 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10334 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com