Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-4096

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-4096.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 06, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-4096: 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.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

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 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:163 http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en 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 https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144 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 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:163 http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en 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 https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-4096 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 06, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.