National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2076

Overview

Memory leak in Paul Rombouts pdnsd before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a DNS query with an unsupported (1) QTYPE or (2) QCLASS, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS DNS test suite.

Impact

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

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#955777

Name: VU#955777

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/955777

External Source: BID

Name: 17694

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17694

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015989

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015989

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1528

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1528

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1505

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1505

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html

Hyperlink:http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf?lang=en

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf?lang=en

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html?lang=en

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html?lang=en

External Source: XF

Name: dns-improper-request-handling(26081)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26081

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200605-10

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-10.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20055

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20055

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19835

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19835