National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0684
Original release date:08/12/2002
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#542971
Name: VU#542971
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2002:139
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2002:050
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20020704 Re: Remote buffer overflow in resolver code of libc
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLSA-2002:507
