What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4518

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-11-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Qbik WinGate 6.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a DNS request with a self-referencing compressed name pointer, which triggers an infinite loop.

Affected products

• Qbik Wingate: through 6.1.4

References

• http://forums.qbik.com/viewtopic.php?t=4215
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=444
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23029
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017284
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21295
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4711
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30491
• http://forums.qbik.com/viewtopic.php?t=4215
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=444
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23029
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017284
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21295

Get alerted when CVE-2006-4518 or the next vulnerability affects your stack