CVE-2002-1912: Skystream EMR5000

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SkyStream EMR5000 1.16 through 1.18 does not drop packets or disable the Ethernet interface when the buffers are full, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (null pointer exception and kernel panic) via a large number of packets.

Affected products

• Skystream EMR5000: version 1.16 only; version 1.17 only; version 1.18 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.