CVE-2002-1265: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.1 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.0 only; version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only
• GNU Glibc: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …
• Sgi Irix: version 2.3.1 only; version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; …

Published 2002-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.