CVE-2002-0684
N/A
Published: July 31, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:57 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsBINDGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102581482511612&w=2Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-139.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/542971Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-050.phpQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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