CVE-2002-1203 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via resource exhaustion by flooding malformed TCP packets to IBM SecureWay Firewall.
- 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-2002-1203?
CVE-2002-1203 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Oct 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1203?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Secureway Firewall.
How do I fix CVE-2002-1203?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1203 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-2002-1203 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1203 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4jf6-93vm-4232.