CVE-2006-0988 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-0988?

CVE-2006-0988 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 3 Mar 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The default configuration of the DNS Server service on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, and the Microsoft DNS Server service on Windows NT 4.0, 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0988?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Nt.

How do I fix CVE-2006-0988?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0988 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-0988 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-0988 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7mvp-fp42-r9rr.