National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0987

Overview

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, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

This vulnerability affects ISC, BIND versions 9.3.2 and previous.}

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060228 recursive DNS servers DDoS as a growing DDoS problem

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html

Hyperlink:http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html