CVE-2002-0990 Information

Description

The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0 Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3 VelociRaptor and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist which generates a long timeout.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103463869503124&w=2 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.10.11.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10364.php simple-webserver-url-dos(10364) http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5958