CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2006-4518

    CVE-2006-4518

    Qbik WinGate 6.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a DNS request with a self-referencing compressed name pointer, which triggers an infinite loop.

    Published:Nov 28, 2006
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 28, 2006
    EPSS Score:0.01498
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Qbik
    Product
    Wingate

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2020-13866 (CVSS 7.8) — WinGate v9.4.1.5998 has insecure permissions for the installation directory, which allows local users to gain …
    CVE-2009-0802 (CVSS 5.4) — Qbik WinGate, when transparent interception mode is enabled, uses the HTTP Host header to determine the remote…
    CVE-2008-3606 (CVSS 6.5) — Heap-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service in Qbik WinGate 6.2.2.1137 and earlier allows remote authentica…
    CVE-2007-4335 (CVSS 5) — Format string vulnerability in the SMTP server component in Qbik WinGate 5.x and 6.x before 6.2.2 allows remot…
    CVE-2006-2917 (CVSS 5.5) — Directory traversal vulnerability in the IMAP server in WinGate 6.1.2.1094 and 6.1.3.1096, and possibly other …
    CVE-2006-2926 (CVSS 7.5) — Stack-based buffer overflow in the WWW Proxy Server of Qbik WinGate 6.1.1.1077 allows remote attackers to caus…
    CVE-2004-0789 (CVSS 5) — Multiple implementations of the DNS protocol, including (1) Poslib 1.0.2-1 and earlier as used by Posadis, (2)…
    CVE-2004-0578 (CVSS 5) — WinGate 5.2.3 build 901 and 6.0 beta 2 build 942, and other versions such as 5.0.5, allows remote attackers to…
    CVE-2004-0577 (CVSS 5) — WinGate 5.2.3 build 901 and 6.0 beta 2 build 942, and other versions such as 5.0.5, allows remote attackers to…
    CVE-2000-1048 (CVSS 5) — Directory traversal vulnerability in the logfile service of Wingate 4.1 Beta A and earlier allows remote attac…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High