CVE-2006-2069 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting PowerDNS versions prior to 3.0.1. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending specially crafted EDNS0 packets to the PowerDNS recursor, causing the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, though it only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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