CVE-2006-4252 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00012.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Powerdns	Recursor

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.0_rc1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.15:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.16:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.17:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.18:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.2:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-4240	PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2006-02.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22824
http://secunia.com/advisories/22976
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21037
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4484
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30257

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2006-11-14T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:06.841Z

Reserved: 2006-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4252

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-14T20:07:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-4252

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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