CVE-2006-2073

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-2073
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-27 22:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS: 0.052350000 probability, percentile 0.899810000 (date 2026-04-20)

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Isc Bind 9.0 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.0.1 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.1 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.1.1 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.1.2 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.1.3 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.2.0 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.2.1 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.2.2 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.2.3 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.3 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.3.1 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.3.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#955777 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
BIND Zone Transfer TSIG Handling Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.niscc.gov.uk Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - BIND Can Be Crashed By Remote Users Sending a Broken TSIG af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.niscc.gov.uk Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-07-19Mark J CoxThis 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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