Resource exhaustion in ISC BIND - CVE-2006-0987
Published: June 17, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU92164
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0987
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the default configuration of ISC BIND when configured as a caching name server, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.
Affected software
ISC BIND
How to mitigate CVE-2006-0987
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
ISC BIND - update to 9.4.1-P1