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CVE-2002-0353

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0353 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Ethereal versions 0.9.2 and earlier, where a malformed packet can cause the ASN.1 parser to crash due to incorrect memory allocation, potentially from zero-length fields. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0273 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux 7.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Powertools 6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Powertools 7.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Powertools 7.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-0353

security flaw

Mar 23, 2002

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-130
ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00003.html
URL Repurposed
iss.net / security_center/static/8952.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-088.html
securityfocus.com / bid/4604