PT-2002-2185 · Ibm · Ibm Secureway Firewall

Published 2002-10-15 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2002-1203

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: IBM SecureWay Firewall versions prior to 4.2.2

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically resource exhaustion, by sending a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set. This is due to the firewall performing extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 4.2.2, update to version 4.2.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1203

Affected Products

Ibm Secureway Firewall

References · 4

• http://iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1203 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/5924 · Note