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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4096

Original release date:09/06/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive queries, which cause an INSIST failure when the response is received after the recursion queue is empty.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
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

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/08/2006)
Not Vulnerable. This issue was found and fixed as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0288.html and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 8: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0287.html This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#697164
Name: VU#697164
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697164
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT061239
Hyperlink:https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-626
Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-626
External Source: XF
Name: bind-recursive-insist-dos(28744)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28744
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1172
Hyperlink:http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1172
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-343-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-343-1
External Source: BID
Name: 19859
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19859
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060908 rPSA-2006-0166-1 bind bind-utils
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/445600/100/0/threaded
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2006.019
Hyperlink:http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.019.html
External Source: OPENBSD
Name: [3.9] 20060908 010: SECURITY FIX: September 8, 2006
Hyperlink:http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:024
Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:023
Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:163
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:163
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1939
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1401
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1401
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3511
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3511
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3473
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3473
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY89178
Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY89178
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY89169
Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY89169
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2006-257-01
Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.481241
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016794
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016794
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200609-11
Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-11.xml
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind
Hyperlink:http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25402
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25402
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24950
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24950
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22298
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22298
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21926
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21926
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21912
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21912
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21838
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21838
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21835
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21835
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21828
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21828
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21818
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21818
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21816
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21816
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21790
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21790
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21786
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21786
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21752
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21752
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-05-24
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:163
Hyperlink:http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:163
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.2.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.3.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.3.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:isc:bind:9.3.2
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4096