CVE-2006-4251 (GCVE-0-2006-4251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-14 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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