Vulnerability record · CVE-2002-0741 · published 12 August 2002
CVE-2002-0741: Psychoid psybnc vulnerability
Psychoid · Psybnc
psyBNC 2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and resource exhaustion) by sending a PASS command with a long password argument and quickly killing the connection, which is not properly terminated by psyBNC.
Description
psyBNC 2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and resource exhaustion) by sending a PASS command with a long password argument and quickly killing the connection, which is not properly terminated by psyBNC.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0322.html | |
| http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269131 | |
| http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8912.php | PatchVendor Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570 | ExploitPatchVendor Advisory |
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0322.html | |
| http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269131 | |
| http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8912.php | PatchVendor Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570 | ExploitPatchVendor Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2002-0741), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.
