CVE-2002-1201 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IBM AIX versions 4.3.3 and 5. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a flood of malformed TCP packets lacking flags, leading to excessive CPU consumption or system crashes due to unreleased memory buffers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector and 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 surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.