CVE-2002-0460

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2002-0460 · Published 12/08/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0460 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting winsshd (bitvise).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 85.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
winsshd bitvise	`= 1.1`	No fix yet

Description

Bitvise WinSSHD before 2002-03-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of incomplete connections that are not properly terminated, which are not properly freed by SSHd.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0068.html
online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/262681 · Vendor Advisory
iss.net/security_center/static/8470.php · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/4300 · Exploit

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