Buffer overflow in Rtfm Ssldump

CVE-2002-2227

Buffer underflow in ssldump 0.9b2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted SSLv2 challenge value.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2002-12-31 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (86.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Rtfm Ssldump

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/5693 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/291329 (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
www.rtfm.com/ssldump/ (Patch, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10087 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)