Denial of Service Vulnerability in Check Point FireWall-1
CVE-2000-1201

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Checkpoint
Status
Firewall-1
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 August 2001

Summary

Check Point FireWall-1 is susceptible to a denial of service attack that can severely disrupt service availability. By sending a flood of packets to port 264, remote attackers can overwhelm the firewall's CPU resources, leading to significant degradation of performance and potentially halting traffic management processes. This vulnerability emphasizes the importance of robust firewall configurations and proactive monitoring to mitigate possible attacks.

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/00...
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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