CVE-2006-4518 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-4518?

CVE-2006-4518 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Nov 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Qbik WinGate 6.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a DNS request with a self-referencing compressed name pointer, which triggers an infinite loop.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4518?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Qbik Wingate.

How do I fix CVE-2006-4518?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-4518 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-2006-4518 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4518 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2020-13866 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2006-2926 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-1999-0291 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2008-3606 Memory corruption in n/a Medium 6.5
• CVE-2006-2917 Path traversal in n/a Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2gcc-r844-pr65.