CVE-2002-1231 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1231?

CVE-2002-1231 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Sep 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 and Open UNIX 8.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via an rcp call on /proc.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1231?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Caldera Openunix, Caldera Unixware.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1231?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1231 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-2002-1231 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2002-0679 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0988 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0311 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2001-1577 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2002-0884 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-m4gf-h6wv-8794.