CVE-2002-1201

N/A Unknown
Published: October 28, 2002 Modified: April 16, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

10 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.1%
84th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

ibm