CVE-2002-1585 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service by sending specific packets that stop network interfaces from responding to TCP traffic.
- 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-2002-1585?
CVE-2002-1585 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 8 Feb 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unknown vulnerability in Solaris 8 for Intel and Solaris 8 and 9 for SPARC allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain packets that cause some network interfaces to stop responding to TCP traffic.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1585?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2002-1585?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1585 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-2002-1585 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1585 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-whhr-h6mf-74pw.