CVE-2006-2072

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in DeleGate 9.x before 9.0.6 and 8.x before 8.11.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted DNS responses messages that cause (1) a buffer over-read or (2) infinite recursion, which can trigger a segmentation fault or invalid memory access, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS DNS test suite.

Affected products

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology DeleGate: 7.7.0, 7.7.1, 7.8.0, 7.8.1, 7.8.2, 7.9.11 (+30)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19750
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015991
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/955777
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html?lang=en
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf?lang=en
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17691
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1505
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1506
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26081
http://secunia.com/advisories/19750
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015991
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/955777

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