Kerio Personal Firewall up to 2.1.4 SYN Packet resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Kerio Personal Firewall up to 2.1.4. It has been rated as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component SYN Packet Handler. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-2161. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Kerio Personal Firewall up to 2.1.4 (Firewall Software). This affects an unknown function of the component SYN Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) 2.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and CPU consumption) via a SYN packet flood.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2002 by Lincoln (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-2161 since 11/16/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9963) and SecurityFocus (BID 5570†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

08/26/2002 🔍
12/31/2002 +127 days 🔍
12/31/2002 +0 days 🔍
11/16/2005 +1051 days 🔍
08/06/2014 +3185 days 🔍
07/11/2024 +3626 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: kerio.com

Advisory: online.securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Lincoln
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-2161 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-2161
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19803
X-Force: 9963
SecurityFocus: 5570 - Kerio Personal Firewall Multiple SYN Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 08/06/2014 12:17
Updated: 07/11/2024 01:29
Changes: 08/06/2014 12:17 (46), 04/20/2019 09:18 (6), 07/11/2024 01:29 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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