Medium 5.0Published Mar 3, 2006

CVE-2006-0987The 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, whi…

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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.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

isc bind isc:bind	9.3.2	NVD

References

http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269x-refsource-confirm
http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.htmlx-refsource-misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threadedmailing-list, x-refsource-bugtraq
http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdfx-refsource-misc

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