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CVE-2006-0987

The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1, when configured as a caching name server, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Published

2006-03-03T11:02:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	isc	bind	9.3.2	Yes

References

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html ([email protected])
http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)