National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-0987
Orirignal release date: 2006-03-03
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The default configuration of ISC BIND, when configured as a caching name server, 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: 2.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: config
    Impact Type: avail

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    BIND (ISC)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0987