CVE-2002-0038: Sgi Irix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in the cache-limiting function of the unified name service daemon (nsd) in IRIX 6.5.4 through 6.5.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by forcing the cache to fill the disk.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; version 6.5.6 only; version 6.5.7 only; version 6.5.8 only; version 6.5.9 only; …

Published 2002-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.