CVE-2006-4251 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-4251 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 219355 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:070, published Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:09:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:47 2025