CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0400

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-06-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

ISC BIND 9 before 9.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (shutdown) via a malformed DNS packet that triggers an error condition that is not properly handled when the rdataset parameter to the dns_message_findtype() function in message.c is not NULL, aka DoS_findtype.

Affected configurations

• isc bind 9.0 • isc bind 9.1 • isc bind 9.1.1 • isc bind 9.1.2 • isc bind 9.1.3 • isc bind 9.2

References