CVE-2006-4251

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: PowerDNS, Recursor, 3.1.4

Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TCP DNS query that prevents Recursor from properly calculating the TCP DNS query length.

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: PowerDNS, Recursor, 3.1.4

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

PowerDNS Recursor

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-14 19:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:32:00

Affected Software

PowerDNS Recursor 3.0

3.0

PowerDNS Recursor 3.0.1

3.0.1

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.1

3.1.1

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.2

3.1.2

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