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CVE-2002-1203

• 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
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.

Affected products

• IBM Secureway Firewall: 4.2, 4.2.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5924
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5924

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