Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0033

Title: BIND recursion and glue fetching buffer overflow DoS

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0033.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0033: Buffer overflow in the code for recursion and glue fetching in BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via queries that trigger the overflow in the q_usedns array that tracks nameservers and addresses.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.1/SCOSA-2006.1.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/14009 http://secunia.com/advisories/18291 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012996 http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind8.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/327633 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12364 http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00059.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19063 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.1/SCOSA-2006.1.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/14009 http://secunia.com/advisories/18291 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012996 http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind8.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/327633 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12364 http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00059.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19063

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-2005-0033 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.

May 02, 2005 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.