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bind9 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- bind9
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:9.4.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-0987
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 13:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0987
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.4.0-1
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.4.0-1
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.4.0-1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0987",
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"modified": "2026-10-09T23:47:28.463704598Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 124740,
"published_at": "2006-03-03T11:02:00+00:00"
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