CVE-2006-0987

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 57.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-03 · updated 2026-10-09

Description

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.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.3.2

References

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html
http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf
http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html
http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf

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