CVE-2006-0987

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 3, 2006
Updated: Oct 9, 2026
Reserved: Mar 3, 2006

Description

The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1, when configured as a caching name server, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269
http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html
20060228 recursive DNS servers DDoS as a growing DDoS problemmailing-list
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf

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