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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5924
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php
Scores
EPSS
0.0166
EPSS Percentile
74.2%
Details
CWE
CWE-399
Status
published
Products (2)
ibm/secureway_firewall
4.2
ibm/secureway_firewall
4.2.1
Published
Oct 28, 2002
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026