Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0684

Title: DNS resolver functions buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0684.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 12, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0684: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gnu 1

gentoo 1

isc 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102581482511612&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-139.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/542971 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-050.php http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000507 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102581482511612&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-139.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/542971 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-050.php

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-2002-0684 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 12, 2002 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.