CVE-2002-1203 Information

Description

IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5924