CVE-2002-0115 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Snort 1.8.3 does not properly define the minimum ICMP header size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and core dump) via a malformed ICMP packet.

Published: 2002-06-25

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 8.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

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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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:martin_roesch:snort:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0115	Snort 1.8.3 does not properly define the minimum ICMP header size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and core dump) via a malformed ICMP packet.

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 0.08658.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249340
http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&start=2002-03-08&end=2002-03-14&mid=249623&threads=1
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7874.php
http://www.osvdb.org/2022
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3849

History

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Subscriptions

Martin Roesch Snort

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.651Z

Reserved: 2002-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0115

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-03-25T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0115

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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