CVE-2002-0029

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflows in the DNS stub resolver library in ISC BIND 4.9.2 through 4.9.10, and other derived libraries such as BSD libc and GNU glibc, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DNS server responses that trigger the overflow in the (1) getnetbyname, or (2) getnetbyaddr functions, aka "LIBRESOLV: buffer overrun" and a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-0684.

Affected products

Astaro Security Linux: 2.0.23, 2.0.24, 2.0.25, 2.0.26, 2.0.27, 2.0.30 (+3)
ISC BIND: 4.9.2, 4.9.3, 4.9.4, 4.9.5, 4.9.6, 4.9.7 (+3)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10624.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/844360
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6186
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html

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