CVE-2002-1201: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 4.3.3 only; version 5 only

Published 2002-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.