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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-0987 json

The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1, when configured as a caching name server, allows recursive queries and provides addi…

published 2006-03-03 20 y ago modified 2026-10-09 30 d ago also EUVD-2006-0990

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
57.9%
EPSS 57.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1, 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.

Patch / fix

  • bind9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:9.4.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0987

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-2006-0987 updated cvss 4.3

bind: DDoS (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed IP addresses due to additional information delegation to arbitrary IP addresses

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
30 d ago

Exploit prediction

57.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

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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