National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0400

Overview

ISC BIND 9 before 9.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (shutdown) via a malformed DNS packet that triggers an error condition that is not properly handled when the rdataset parameter to the dns_message_findtype() function in message.c is not NULL, aka DoS_findtype.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#739123

Name: VU#739123

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/739123

CERT/CC Advisory: CA-2002-15

Name: CA-2002-15

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-15.html

External Source: BID

Name: 4936

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4936

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2003:154

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-154.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2002:119

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-119.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2002:105

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-105.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2002:021

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_21_bind9.html

External Source: XF

Name: bind-findtype-dos(9250)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9250.php

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

Hyperlink:http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2002:038

Hyperlink:http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:038

External Source: CONECTIVA

Name: CLA-2002:494

Hyperlink:http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000494

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBUX0207-202

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2002-q3/0022.html

External Source: CALDERA

Name: CSSA-2002-SCO.24

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/updates/OpenUNIX/CSSA-2002-SCO.24.1/CSSA-2002-SCO.24.1.txt