CVE-2002-1265

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Sun RPC functionality in multiple libc implementations does not provide a time-out mechanism when reading data from TCP connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang).

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/51082
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/mss/MSS-OAR-E01-2004.0800.1
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10539.phpVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/266817Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6103Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2248
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/51082
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/mss/MSS-OAR-E01-2004.0800.1
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10539.phpVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/266817Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6103Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2248

Timeline

Published: Nov 12, 2002
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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