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critical 10.0

CVE-2001-0010 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code in BIND 8 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

published 2001-02-12 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0010

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.6%
EPSS 31.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
4
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code in BIND 8 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0010 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2001:007

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-280)

Exploit prediction

31.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-282 ISC BIND 8.2.x - 'TSIG' Remote Stack Overflow (4) remote, 2001-03-02
  • EDB-280 ISC BIND 8.2.x - 'TSIG' Remote Stack Overflow (3) remote, 2001-03-01
  • EDB-279 ISC BIND 8.2.x - 'TSIG' Remote Stack Overflow (2) remote, 2001-03-01
  • EDB-277 ISC BIND 8.2.x - 'TSIG' Remote Stack Overflow (1) remote, 2001-03-01

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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