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CVE-2002-1201

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 4.3.3, 5

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925

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