CVE-2002-1140 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Sun Microsystems RPC library Services for Unix 3.0 Interix SD, specifically when implemented on Microsoft Windows NT4, 2000, and XP. Attackers can exploit this by sending malformed packet fragments, leading to a service hang. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:services:3.0:*:unix:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.