Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2002-1201 (CCN-10326)

Assigned:2002-10-09
Published:2002-10-09
Updated:2016-10-18
Summary:IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.
CVSS v3 Severity:5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Type:CWE-Other
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Oct 09 2002 - 08:43:45 CDT
Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Oct 09 2002 - 12:58:41 CDT
Re: Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2002-1201

Source: BUGTRAQ
Type: UNKNOWN
20021009 Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Technical Support Web site
AIX General Software Fixes

Source: AIXAPAR
Type: UNKNOWN
IY31641

Source: CCN
Type: IBM APAR IY31641
M/C HANGS IF IT IS FLOODED WITH PACKETS WHOSE TH_FLAGS IS NULL.

Source: CCN
Type: IBM APAR IY31940
M/C HANGS IF IT IS FLOODED WITH PACKETS WHOSE TH_FLAGS IS NULL

Source: XF
Type: Vendor Advisory
aix-tcp-flood-dos(10326)

Source: CCN
Type: US-CERT VU#102345
IBM AIX vulnerable to DoS

Source: CERT-VN
Type: US Government Resource
VU#102345

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 8000
IBM AIX Malformed TCP Packet Saturation DoS

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
5925

Source: CCN
Type: BID-5925
IBM AIX Remote Empty TCP Flag Flood Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
aix-tcp-flood-dos(10326)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    ibm aix 4.3.3
    ibm aix 5
    ibm aix 5.1
    ibm aix 4.3.3
    ibm aix 5.2
    ibm aix 5.3
    ibm aix 5