CVE-2006-4252

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

14/11/2006

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::		3.1.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.0_rc1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.15:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.16:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.17:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.2:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::		3.1.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.0_rc1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.15:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.16:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.17:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:2.9.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.2:::::::*

CVE-2006-4252

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools