Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0029

Title: DNS stub resolver buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0029.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 29, 2002
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
9.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0029: Buffer overflows in the DNS stub resolver library in ISC BIND 4.9.2 through 4.9.10, and other derived libraries such as BSD libc and GNU glibc, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DNS server responses that trigger the overflow in the (1) getnetbyname, or (2) getnetbyaddr functions, aka "LIBRESOLV: buffer overrun" and a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-0684.

Impacted Vendors

I
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Reference Links

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-028.txt.asc ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021201-01-P http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10624.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/844360 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6186 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-028.txt.asc ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021201-01-P http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10624.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/844360 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6186
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0029 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.