CVE-2005-2238

IBM AIX 5.1-5.3 - Authenticated Denial of Service via Ephemeral Port Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

ftpd in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (port exhaustion and memory consumption) by using all ephemeral ports.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014421

Scores

EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 42.2%

Details

Status published
Products (3)
ibm/aix 5.1
ibm/aix 5.2
ibm/aix 5.3
Published Jul 12, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026