CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4252

Published: Nov 14, 2006 | Modified: Apr 23, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
RecursorPowerdns*3.1.3 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.0_rc1 (including)2.0_rc1 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.8 (including)2.8 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.9.15 (including)2.9.15 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.9.16 (including)2.9.16 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.9.17 (including)2.9.17 (including)
RecursorPowerdns2.9.18 (including)2.9.18 (including)
RecursorPowerdns3.0 (including)3.0 (including)
RecursorPowerdns3.0.1 (including)3.0.1 (including)
RecursorPowerdns3.1 (including)3.1 (including)
RecursorPowerdns3.1.1 (including)3.1.1 (including)
RecursorPowerdns3.1.2 (including)3.1.2 (including)
PdnsUbuntudapper*
Pdns-recursorUbuntudevel*
Pdns-recursorUbuntuedgy*
Pdns-recursorUbuntufeisty*
Pdns-recursorUbuntugutsy*
Pdns-recursorUbuntuhardy*
Pdns-recursorUbuntuintrepid*
Pdns-recursorUbuntujaunty*
Pdns-recursorUbuntukarmic*

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