CVE-2002-1232 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1232?

CVE-2002-1232 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in ypdb_open in yp_db.c for ypserv before 2.5 in the NIS package 3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests for a map that does not exist.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1232?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Hp Secure Os, Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1232?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2002-1232 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1232 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1232, DSA-180, GHSA-xj67-5prp-p33j.