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CVE-2002-1220

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BIND 8.3.x through 8.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (termination due to assertion failure) via a request for a subdomain that does not exist, with an OPT resource record with a large UDP payload size.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
• ISC BIND: 8.3.0, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3
• OpenBSD: 3.0, 3.1, 3.2

References

• http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103713117612842&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103763574715133&w=2
• http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4999
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/300019
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-013.shtml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-196
• http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/229595
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-077.php

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