CVE-2002-2150 Information

Description

Firewalls from multiple vendors empty state tables more slowly than they are filled which allows remote attackers to flood state tables with packet flooding attacks such as (1) TCP SYN flood (2) UDP flood or (3) Crikey CRC Flood which causes the firewall to refuse any new connections.

Reference

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10449.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/539363 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6023