CVE-2002-2185 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-2185?

CVE-2002-2185 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Nov 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an IGMP membership report to a target's Ethernet address instead of the Multicast group address, which causes the target to stop sending reports to the router and effectively disconnect the group from the network.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2185?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98se, Microsoft Windows Xp, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2002-2185?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2002-2185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2185 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7rp7-7c38-2w9q.