CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1146

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-10-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-11
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

The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary ("read buffer overflow"), allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.2.5)

References