CVE-2006-4251 Affecting pdns package, versions <2.9.20-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.69% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-PDNS-5692410
  • published14 Nov 2006
  • disclosed14 Nov 2006

Introduced: 14 Nov 2006

CVE-2006-4251  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 pdns to version 2.9.20-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pdns package and not the pdns package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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