CVE-2006-0988

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

This vulnerability affects all versions of Windows 2000 -and- Windows Server 2003.

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.

This vulnerability affects all versions of Windows 2000 -and- Windows Server 2003.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 18 years ago

2006-03-03 11:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-18 16:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

References

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

20060228 recursive DNS servers DDoS as a growing DDoS problem

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

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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