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CVE-2002-0046 (GCVE-0-2002-0046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-06-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35
VLAI
Summary
Linux kernel, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a series of fragmented ICMP packets that generate an ICMP TTL Exceeded response, which includes portions of the memory in the response packet.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.osvdb.org/5394 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-007.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/251418 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2002-01-20 00:00
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