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CVE-2002-1355

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1355 describes multiple integer signedness errors within the BGP dissector of Ethereal 0.9.7 and earlier. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by sending specially crafted BGP messages to a system running the affected Ethereal versions. The CVSS score of 5.0 indicates a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential impact of partial 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
<= 0.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ethereal_group:ethereal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 61st 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 Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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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 Linux 8.0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2002-1355Low

security flaw

Dec 7, 2002

References

ethereal.com / appnotes/enpa-sa-00007.html
PatchVendor AdvisoryURL Repurposed
ethereal.com / cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ethereal/packet-bgp.c.diff
URL Repurposed
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2002-290.html
PatchVendor Advisory