CVE-2002-0038 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0038?

CVE-2002-0038 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sgi Irix, published on 25 Jun 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the cache-limiting function of the unified name service daemon (nsd) in IRIX 6.5.4 through 6.5.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by forcing the cache to fill the disk.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0038?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sgi Irix.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0038?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0038 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-0038 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0038 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sgi Irix

• CVE-2002-1584 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0139 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0575 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0473 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0359 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0

All Sgi Irix vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jm6p-xrv4-wv7g.