CVE-2002-0140 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability, and potential arbitrary code execution, in Domain Name Relay Daemon (dnrd) versions 2.10 and earlier. Remote malicious DNS sites can trigger this by sending long or malformed DNS replies, which the software fails to handle correctly. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for a denial-of-service attack is publicly available via ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, despite no media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dnrd:dnrd:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.