PowerDNS 3.0 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS 3.0 (Domain Name Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The recursor in PowerDNS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed EDNS0 packets.

The bug was discovered 04/26/2006. The weakness was disclosed 04/27/2006 (Website). The advisory is available at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-2069 since 04/26/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 27385 (openSUSE 10 Security Update : pdns (pdns-1314)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 3.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26100) and Tenable (27385).

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 27385
Nessus Name: openSUSE 10 Security Update : pdns (pdns-1314)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: PowerDNS 3.0.1

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04/26/2006 🔍
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04/27/2006 +1 days 🔍
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10/17/2007 +525 days 🔍
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03/12/2015 +2696 days 🔍
07/29/2019 +1600 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-2069 (🔍)
X-Force: 26100
Vulnerability Center: 16648 - PowerDNS Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Cause DoS, High
SecurityFocus: 17711 - PowerDNS Malformed EDNS0 Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 19831
OSVDB: 40107 - CVE-2006-2069 - PowerDNS - Denial of Service Issue
Vupen: ADV-2006-1527

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 07/29/2019 09:14
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (73), 07/29/2019 09:14 (4)
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