CVE-2002-0172: Sgi Irix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

/dev/ipfilter on SGI IRIX 6.5 is installed by /dev/MAKEDEV with insecure default permissions (644), which could allow a local user to cause a denial of service (traffic disruption).

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2002-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.