CVE-2006-2076

Summary

CVECVE-2006-2076
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-27 22:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMemory leak in Paul Rombouts pdnsd before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a DNS query with an unsupported (1) QTYPE or (2) QCLASS, 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: 0.097410000 probability, percentile 0.929600000 (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 Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.0.13 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.0.15 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.1 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.10_par All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.11_par All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.2 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.3 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.4 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.5 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.6 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.7a All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.8b1_par5 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.8b1_par6 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.1.8b1_par8 All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.2.1_par All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.2.2_par All All All
Application Pdnsd Pdnsd 1.2.3_par All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
pdnsd maintenance page by Paul Rombouts af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.phys.uu.nl
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#955777 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
pdnsd DNS Query Handling Memory Leak Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for pdnsd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
pdnsd Bug in Processing ADNS Queries Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Patch
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Paul A. Rombouts PDNSD DNS Query Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20060425-00311.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.niscc.gov.uk Vendor Advisory
www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.niscc.gov.uk Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- pdnsd: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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