Vulnerability in FreeBSD

CVE-2002-1219

Buffer overflow in named in BIND 4 versions 4.9.10 and earlier, and 8 versions 8.3.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a certain DNS server response containing SIG resource records (RR).

Published 2002-11-29 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.123 (96.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.123 · newest: 0.123 · change: 0.000

Affected products

FreeBSD — versions 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Isc Bind — versions 4.9.5, 4.9.6, 4.9.7
OpenBSD — versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2

References

www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2002/Nov/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/6160 (vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-196 (vendor-advisory)
online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4999 (vendor-advisory)
sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2539 (signature, vdb-entry)
marc.info/ (mailing-list)
distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/ (vendor-advisory)