CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4252
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.
Affected configurations
• powerdns recursor (<= 3.1.3)
• powerdns recursor 2.0 rc1
• powerdns recursor 2.8
• powerdns recursor 2.9.15
• powerdns recursor 2.9.16
• powerdns recursor 2.9.17
• powerdns recursor 2.9.18
• powerdns recursor 3.0
• powerdns recursor 3.0.1
• powerdns recursor 3.1
• powerdns recursor 3.1.1
• powerdns recursor 3.1.2
References
- http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2006-02.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0007.html lists.suse.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22824 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22976 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21037 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4484 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30257 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2006-02.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0007.html lists.suse.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22824 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22976 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21037 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4484 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30257 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com