National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2073
Original release date:04/27/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in ISC BIND allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS message with a "broken" TSIG, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS DNS test suite.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/19/2007)
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This issue did not affect the version of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We do not believe this issue has a security consequence for earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For details please see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192192
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#955777
Name: VU#955777
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19808
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 17692
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf?lang=en
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html?lang=en
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1537
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1505
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015993
External Source: XF
Name: dns-improper-request-handling(26081)