| Name | CVE-2006-0987 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 355787, 356266 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bind9 (PTS) | bullseye | 1:9.16.48-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:9.18.24-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:9.18.28-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.20.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| bind | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | 355787 |
| bind9 | source | (unstable) | 1:9.4.0-1 | unimportant | | 356266 |
Notes
This is within the responsibilities of a local admin, especially when
operating a DNS server, affected sites can configure AllowRecursion