CVE-2002-0400: ISC BIND

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ISC BIND 9 before 9.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (shutdown) via a malformed DNS packet that triggers an error condition that is not properly handled when the rdataset parameter to the dns_message_findtype() function in message.c is not NULL, aka DoS_findtype.

Affected products

• ISC BIND: version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.1.1 only; version 9.1.2 only; version 9.1.3 only; version 9.2 only

Published 2002-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.