CVE-2002-1387: Ehud Gavron Tracesroute

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The spray mode in traceroute-nanog (aka traceroute-ng) may allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations via an array index overflow using the nprobes (number of probes) argument.

Affected products

• Ehud Gavron Tracesroute: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.1.1 only

Published 2003-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.