VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-4251

CVSS score7.5 HIGH

EPSS probability8.79%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2006-11-14

Last modified2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TCP DNS query that prevents Recursor from properly calculating the TCP DNS query length.