IBM Secureway Firewall up to 4.2.1 TCP Packet resource management
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A vulnerability has been found in IBM Secureway Firewall up to 4.2.1 (Firewall Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component TCP Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:
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.
The weakness was disclosed 10/28/2002 (Website). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-1203. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
Upgrading to version 4.2.2 eliminates this vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Countermeasures
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Upgrade: Secureway Firewall 4.2.2
Timeline
10/09/2002 🔍10/28/2002 🔍
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07/30/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: ibm.comAdvisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2002-1203 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 5924 - IBM SecureWay Firewall Denial of Service Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 07/30/2014 18:06Updated: 04/19/2019 09:19
Changes: 07/30/2014 18:06 (51), 04/19/2019 09:19 (2)
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