CVE-2006-4252
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-11-14 20:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 19:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-08-21
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8fbcb89d773759d9da85db75b5cc1cac18bf18dc108b148f66ed9b04b34903c0
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4484http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4484
- doc.powerdns.comhttp://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2006-02.html
- secunia.com22824http://secunia.com/advisories/22824
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compowerdns-cname-bo(30257)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30257
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SA:2006:070http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0007.html
- www.securityfocus.com21037http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21037
- secunia.com22976http://secunia.com/advisories/22976
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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