National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-0988
Orirignal release date: 2006-03-03
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The default configuration of the DNS Server service on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, and the Microsoft DNS Server service on Windows NT 4.0, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: config
    Impact Type: avail

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Windows 2000 (Microsoft)
    Windows Server 2003 (Microsoft)
    Windows NT (Microsoft)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0988