CVE-2002-0684 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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