Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1220

Title: BIND nonexistent subdomain with large OPT resource record DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-1220

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 29, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

9.60%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1220: BIND 8.3.x through 8.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (termination due to assertion failure) via a request for a subdomain that does not exist, with an OPT resource record with a large UDP payload size.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469 http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103713117612842&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103763574715133&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4999 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/300019 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-013.shtml http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-196 http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/229595 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-077.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6161 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10332 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A449 http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469 http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103713117612842&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103763574715133&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4999 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/300019 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-013.shtml http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-196 http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/229595 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-077.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6161 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10332 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A449

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1220 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22011

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 29, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.