CVE-2006-4096

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.083 · 95 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

8.33% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

20 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd · redhat_csaf

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

FixedRed Hat Desktop version 3redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0287
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0287
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0287
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0287
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0288
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0288
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4redhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0288
FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 ELSredhat_csaf
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006:0288

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-400USLLM-inferred

affected products (20)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
isc bind= 9.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat Desktop version 3all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3::as
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4::as
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3::es
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4all versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 ELSall versionsfixedredhat_csafUScpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4::es

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

RHBA-2006:0287Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: bind bug fix update2006-07-20csaf · redhat_csafUS
Updated bind packages are available.
RHBA-2006:0288Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: bind bug fix update2006-08-09csaf · redhat_csafUS
Updated bind packages that fix several bugs are now available.

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd redhat_csaf NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-09-06modified 2026-06-16

references (82)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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