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CVE-2005-0033
Buffer overflow in the code for recursion and glue fetching in BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 11.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the code for recursion and glue fetching in BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via queries that trigger the overflow in the q_usedns array that tracks nameservers and addresses.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.4% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1012996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050125-00059.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- VU#327633 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 14009 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 12364 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind8.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 18291 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- bind-qusedns-bo(19063) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0034 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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