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CVE-2006-4096

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4096 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting BIND versions prior to 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.2-P1. A remote attacker can crash the BIND server by flooding it with recursive queries, leading to an INSIST failure when responses arrive after the recursion queue is empty. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0868 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Desktop version 3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-4096Important

INSIST failure in ISC BIND recursive query

Sep 5, 2006

References

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/21752
secunia.com / advisories/21786
secunia.com / advisories/21790
secunia.com / advisories/21816
secunia.com / advisories/21818
secunia.com / advisories/21828
secunia.com / advisories/21835
secunia.com / advisories/21838
secunia.com / advisories/21912
secunia.com / advisories/21926
secunia.com / advisories/22298
secunia.com / advisories/24950
secunia.com / advisories/25402
security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:20.bind.asc
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200609-11.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/28744
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-626
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9623
www2.itrc.hp.com / service/cki/docDisplay.do
www-1.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-1.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/697164
PatchUS Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf
Patch
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html
openbsd.org / errata.html
openpkg.com / security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.019.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/445600/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/19859
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-343-1
us.debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1172
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3473
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3511
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1401
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1939