PT-2006-5064 · Powerdns · Powerdns Recursor

Published 2006-11-14 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-4252

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerDNS Recursor versions 3.1.3 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in resource exhaustion and application crash. This is triggered by a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which causes an infinite loop.

Recommendations For PowerDNS Recursor versions 3.1.3 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.1.3 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4252

Affected Products

Powerdns Recursor

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4252 · Security Note
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0007.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2006-02.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4252 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21037 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22824 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-4252 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22976 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4484 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30257 · Note