Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-2185

Title: IGMP membership report to Ethernet address disconnects group from network

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-2185.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 31, 2002
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-2185: The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) allows local users to cause a denial of service via an IGMP membership report to a target's Ethernet address instead of the Multicast group address, which causes the target to stop sending reports to the router and effectively disconnect the group from the network.

Impacted Vendors

N
novell 1
D
debian 1
M
microsoft 3
C
cyrix 1
C
conectiva 1
S
suse 1
R
redhat 4
S
sgi 1
M
mandrakesoft 1
S
sun 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020901-01-A http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276968 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 http://secunia.com/advisories/18684 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~krishna/igmp_dos/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5020 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9436 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10736 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020901-01-A http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276968 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 http://secunia.com/advisories/18684 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~krishna/igmp_dos/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5020 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9436 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10736
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-2185 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.