Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISC BIND 9 before 9.2.1 (DoS_findtype)

CVE-2002-0400 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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