CVE-2016-6171
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 9, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 6, 2016
Description
Knot DNS before 2.3.0 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and slave server crash) via a large zone transfer for (1) DDNS, (2) AXFR, or (3) IXFR.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20160706 Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondariesmailing-list
- 91678vdb-entry
- [dns-operations] 20160704 DNS activities in Japanmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160706 Re: Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondariesmailing-list
- https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/c546a70563ef4c7badb7cb5bdf6d1ba8e7adae82/NEWS
- https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/464
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md
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