CVE-2002-0666

Summary

CVECVE-2002-0666
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-11-04 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionIPSEC implementations including (1) FreeS/WAN and (2) KAME do not properly calculate the length of authentication data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via spoofed, short Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packets, which result in integer signedness errors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.2 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X Server 10.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 stable All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.1 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.2 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.3 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.4 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.5 All All All
Application Frees Wan Frees Wan 1.9.6 All All All
Hardware Global Technology Associates Gnat Box Firmware 3.1 All All All
Hardware Global Technology Associates Gnat Box Firmware 3.2 All All All
Hardware Global Technology Associates Gnat Box Firmware 3.3 All All All
Hardware Nec Bluefire Ix1035 Router All All All All
Hardware Nec Ix1010 All All All All
Hardware Nec Ix1011 All All All All
Hardware Nec Ix1020 All All All All
Hardware Nec Ix1050 All All All All
Hardware Nec Ix2010 All All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5 All sh3 All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5 All x86 All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5.1 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5.2 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.5.3 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.6 beta All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ISS X-Force Database: ipsec-packet-integer-overflow (10411): IPsec short packet integer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#459371 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-201-1 freeswan af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-016.txt.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.netbsd.org
Multiple Vendor IPSec Implementation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Razor: Security Advisories and Publications af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 razor.bindview.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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