VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-1201

CVSS score5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability2.10%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2002-10-28

Last modified2026-06-16

Description

IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.