CVE-2006-0988

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 3, 2006
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Mar 3, 2006

Description

The default configuration of the DNS Server service on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, and the Microsoft DNS Server service on Windows NT 4.0, 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://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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