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CVE-2006-4251

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/11/2006
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TCP DNS query that prevents Recursor from properly calculating the TCP DNS query length.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

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


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