CVE-2002-1779: Symantec Norton Personal Firewall

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "block fragmented IP Packets" option in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2002 (NPW) does not properly protect against certain attacks on Windows vulnerabilities such as jolt2 (CVE-2000-0305).

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Personal Firewall: version 2002 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.