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CVE-2002-1203

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2002-10-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Secureway Firewall

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References