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medium 5.0

CVE-2006-4096 json

BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive querie…

published 2006-09-06 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4088

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive queries, which cause an INSIST failure when the response is received after the recursion queue is empty.

Patch / fix

  • bind9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:9.3.2-P1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4096

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-4096 updated

INSIST failure in ISC BIND recursive query

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0287
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0288
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0287
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0288
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0287
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2006:0288

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

8.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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