CVE-2002-0651

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the DNS resolver code used in libc, glibc, and libbind, as derived from ISC BIND, allows remote malicious DNS servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the stub resolvers.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.4.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q3/0001.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/engarde/2002-q3/0002.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0000.html
http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:038
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102513011311504&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102520962320134&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102579743329251&w=2

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