CVE-2006-2076
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2006-2076 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2006-04-27 22:03:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC |
| Description | Memory 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
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
NoneIntegrity
NoneAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.