CVE-2006-2076

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in Paul Rombouts pdnsd before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a DNS query with an unsupported (1) QTYPE or (2) QCLASS, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS DNS test suite.

Affected products

Pdnsd: 1.0.13, 1.0.15, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 (+12)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19835
http://secunia.com/advisories/20055
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015989
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-10.xml
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.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17694
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1505
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1528
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26081

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