PT-2001-1968 · Specter · Specter Ids

Published 2001-10-12 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2001-0790

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Specter IDS versions 4.5 through 5.0

Description The issue allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU exhaustion, via a port scan. This occurs because the server consumes CPU while preparing alerts in response to the scan.

Recommendations For Specter IDS versions 4.5 through 5.0, consider restricting access to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, limiting the rate of port scans or implementing rate limiting on alerts could help mitigate the CPU exhaustion issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0790

Affected Products

Specter Ids

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0790 · Security Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2001-q2/0071.html · Vendor Advisory