CVE-2006-4096

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive queries, which cause an INSIST failure when the response is received after the recursion queue is empty.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5 (+5)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/21752
http://secunia.com/advisories/21786
http://secunia.com/advisories/21790
http://secunia.com/advisories/21816
http://secunia.com/advisories/21818
http://secunia.com/advisories/21828
http://secunia.com/advisories/21835
http://secunia.com/advisories/21838
http://secunia.com/advisories/21912

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