CVE-2006-4096

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-09-05
Bugzilla:
494543: CVE-2006-4096 INSIST failure in ISC BIND recursive query

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive queries, which cause an INSIST failure when the response is received after the recursion queue is empty.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4096 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not Vulnerable. This issue was found and fixed as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0288.html

and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 8:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0287.html

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHBA-2006:0288 2006-08-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHBA-2006:0287 2006-07-20

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