CVE-2002-1201 Information

Description

IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103418410408599&w=2 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10326.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/102345 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5925 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=IY31641&uid=isg1IY31641&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en