Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0122

Title: Isc Bind RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0122.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Jan 16, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0122: Off-by-one error in the inet_network function in libbind in ISC BIND 9.4.2 and earlier, as used in libc in FreeBSD 6.2 through 7.0-PRERELEASE, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted input that triggers memory corruption.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28367 http://secunia.com/advisories/28429 http://secunia.com/advisories/28487 http://secunia.com/advisories/28579 http://secunia.com/advisories/29161 http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 http://secunia.com/advisories/30313 http://secunia.com/advisories/30538 http://secunia.com/advisories/30718 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc.asc http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238493-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-244.htm http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203611 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487000/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27283 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019189 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0193 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0703 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1743/references http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX61&path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile123640&label=AIX%20libc%20inet_network%20buffer%20overflow http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429149 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39670 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2169 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10190 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00781.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00782.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28367 http://secunia.com/advisories/28429 http://secunia.com/advisories/28487 http://secunia.com/advisories/28579 http://secunia.com/advisories/29161 http://secunia.com/advisories/29323 http://secunia.com/advisories/30313 http://secunia.com/advisories/30538 http://secunia.com/advisories/30718 http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:02.libc.asc http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238493-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-244.htm http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/203611 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487000/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27283 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019189 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0193 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0703 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1743/references http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX61&path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile123640&label=AIX%20libc%20inet_network%20buffer%20overflow http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429149 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39670 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2169 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10190 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00781.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00782.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0122 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 16, 2008 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.