Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0696 - Unspecified vulnerability in IBM AIX 5.1/5.2

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
ibm
NVD
Published: 2004-01-20
Updated: 2017-07-11

Summary

The getipnodebyname() API in AIX 5.1 and 5.2 does not properly close sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Ibm
2

References