CVE-2002-0957: Iss Blackice Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of BlackICE Agent 3.1.eal and 3.1.ebh has a high tcp.maxconnections setting, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of connections to the BlackICE system that consumes more resources than intended by the user.

Affected products

• Iss Blackice Agent: version 3.1eal only; version 3.1ebh only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.