CVE-2002-0990 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can exhaust connection resources in Symantec firewall web proxies by targeting domains with unresponsive DNS servers, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2002-0990?
CVE-2002-0990 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0990?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Symantec Enterprise Firewall, Symantec Gateway Security, Symantec Raptor Firewall, Symantec Velociraptor.
How do I fix CVE-2002-0990?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0990 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-2002-0990 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0990 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gpqc-h3w5-77f4.