CVE-2002-2243 Information

Description

Akfingerd 0.5 and possibly earlier versions only allows one connection at a time and does not time out connections which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (refused connections) by opening a connection and not closing it.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0049.html http://synflood.at/akfingerd http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6323 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10794