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CVE-2002-0684

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2002-08-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu GlibcIsc Bind

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References