CVE-2002-0666

N/A Unknown
Published: November 04, 2002 Modified: April 16, 2026
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Description

IPSEC implementations including (1) FreeS/WAN and (2) KAME do not properly calculate the length of authentication data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via spoofed, short Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packets, which result in integer signedness errors.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-016.txt.asc
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_ipsec.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-201
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10411.php
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/459371
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6011
Source: cve@mitre.org
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-016.txt.asc
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_ipsec.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-201
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10411.php
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/459371
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6011
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

12 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.7%
73th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

apple netbsd freebsd frees_wan global_technology_associates nec