CVE-2006-4251 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2006-4251

Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier might allow...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

recursor
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.0_rc1, 2.8, 2.9.15, 2.9.16, 2.9.17, 2.9.18, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2

Timeline

Official Publish: November 14th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.