CVE-2002-1668 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting HP-UX 11.11 and earlier, specifically impacting HP-UX Series 700 and 800 systems. A local attacker can exploit a "file system weakness," potentially involving the mmap() system call and I/O operations on mapped buffers, to induce a kernel deadlock. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux:11.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux_series_700:10.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:hp:hp-ux_series_800:10.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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