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Vulnerability record · CVE-2006-4096 · published 6 September 2006

CVE-2006-4096: Isc bind vulnerability

Isc · Bind

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.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 8.4% · top 5.2%
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
8.4%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
82References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/21752
http://secunia.com/advisories/21786
http://secunia.com/advisories/21790
http://secunia.com/advisories/21816
http://secunia.com/advisories/21818
http://secunia.com/advisories/21828
http://secunia.com/advisories/21835
http://secunia.com/advisories/21838
http://secunia.com/advisories/21912
http://secunia.com/advisories/21926
http://secunia.com/advisories/22298
http://secunia.com/advisories/24950
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-11.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016794
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.481241
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY89169
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY89178
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697164 PatchUS Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:163
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en Patch
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.019.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445600/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19859
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-343-1
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1172
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3473
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3511
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1401
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28744
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-626
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9623

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2006-4096), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.