CVE-2002-1265

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Sun RPC functionality in multiple libc implementations does not provide a time-out mechanism when reading data from TCP connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang).

Affected products

macOS: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.1 (+7)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.0, 10.2, 10.2.1
GNU C Library (glibc): 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+14)
Sgi Irix: 2.3.1, 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4 (+17)

References

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/51082
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/mss/MSS-OAR-E01-2004.0800.1
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10539.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/266817
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6103
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2248
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/51082
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/mss/MSS-OAR-E01-2004.0800.1
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html

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