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CVE-2005-0033

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the code for recursion and glue fetching in BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via queries that trigger the overflow in the q_usedns array that tracks nameservers and addresses.

Affected products

• ISC BIND: 8.4.4, 8.4.5

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14009
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18291
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1012996
• http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php
• http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind8.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/327633
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12364
• http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00059.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19063
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14009

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