CVE-2006-0987 Information

Description

The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1 when configured as a caching name server allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Reference

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf