CVE-2002-0684

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.2.5
ISC BIND: 4.9.8

References

http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102581482511612&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-139.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/542971
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-050.php
http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102581482511612&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-139.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/542971
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-050.php

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