CVE-2002-0140

HIGH 7.5CVE-2002-0140 · Published 25/03/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-0140 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting dnrd (dnrd).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dnrd dnrd	`= 1.0= 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.4= 2.0= 2.1= 2.10= 2.2= 2.3= 2.4= 2.5= 2.6= 2.7= 2.8= 2.9`	No fix yet

Description

Domain Name Relay Daemon (dnrd) 2.10 and earlier allows remote malicious DNS sites to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long or malformed DNS reply, which is not handled properly by parse_query, get_objectname, and possibly other functions.

References

online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/251619 · Vendor Advisory
iss.net/security_center/static/7957.php
securityfocus.com/bid/3928

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