CVE-2006-4095 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-4095?

CVE-2006-4095 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 6 Sep 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 certain SIG queries, which cause an assertion failure when multiple RRsets are returned.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4095?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Isc Bind.

How do I fix CVE-2006-4095?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2006-4095 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4095 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4095, GHSA-4vp8-cx5p-gwx4.