CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0684

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in DNS resolver functions that perform lookup of network names and addresses, as used in BIND 4.9.8 and ported to glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, allows remote malicious DNS servers to execute arbitrary code through a subroutine used by functions such as getnetbyname and getnetbyaddr.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.2.5) • isc bind 4.9.8

References