CVE-2002-1146: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary ("read buffer overflow"), allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.2.5

Published 2002-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.