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CVE-2002-0990

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.

Affected products

• Symantec Enterprise Firewall: 6.5.2, 7.0
• Symantec Gateway Security: 5110, 5200, 5300
• Symantec Raptor Firewall: 6.5, 6.5.3
• Symantec Velociraptor: 500, 700, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103463869503124&w=2
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.10.11.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10364.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5958
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103463869503124&w=2
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.10.11.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10364.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5958

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