CVE-2001-1057 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The License Manager (mathlm) for Mathematica 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by connecting to port 16286 and not disconnecting, which prevents users from making license requests.

Published: 2002-02-02

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wolfram_research:mathematica:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:wolfram_research:mathematica:4.1:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1038	The License Manager (mathlm) for Mathematica 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by connecting to port 16286 and not disconnecting, which prevents users from making license requests.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01614.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200462
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3120
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6926

History

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Subscriptions

Wolfram Research Mathematica

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-02-02T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:44:07.203Z

Reserved: 2002-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1057

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-07-30T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:55:30.053

Link: CVE-2001-1057

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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