CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0988

7.8 HIGH Published 2006-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The default configuration of the DNS Server service on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, and the Microsoft DNS Server service on Windows NT 4.0, 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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server r2 • microsoft windows nt 4.0

References