CVE-2002-1232

Publication date

2004-09-01 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in ypdb_open in yp_db.c for ypserv before 2.5 in the NIS package 3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests for a map that does not exist.