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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 28, 2002· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2002-1201

CVE-2002-1201

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.

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Affected products

3
  • IBM/Aix3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 4.3.3, 5

Patches

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