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CVE-2006-2069

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The recursor in PowerDNS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed EDNS0 packets.

Affected products

• PowerDNS: 3.0

References

• http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-0-1
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19831
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17711
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1527
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26100
• http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-0-1
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19831
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17711

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