CVE-2002-2211

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BIND 4 and BIND 8, when resolving recursive DNS queries for arbitrary hosts, allows remote attackers to conduct DNS cache poisoning via a birthday attack that uses a large number of open queries for the same resource record (RR) combined with spoofed responses, which increases the possibility of successfully spoofing a response in a way that is more efficient than brute force methods.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 4.9, 4.9.2, 4.9.3, 4.9.4, 4.9.5, 4.9.5-p1 (+25)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20217
http://www.imconf.net/imw-2002/imw2002-papers/198.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/457875
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/IAFY-5FDPYP
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/IAFY-5FDT4U
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/IAFY-5FZSLQ
http://www.rnp.br/cais/alertas/2002/cais-ALR-19112002a.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434523/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1923
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20217

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