CVE-2016-6170

Published July 6th, 2016

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CVSS v3

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

ISC BIND through 9.9.9-P1, 9.10.x through 9.10.4-P1, and 9.11.x through 9.11.0b1 allows primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (secondary DNS server crash) via a large AXFR response, and possibly allows IXFR servers to cause a denial of service (IXFR client crash) via a large IXFR response and allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (primary DNS server crash) via a large UPDATE message.

sischkg/xfer-limit

These patches provide the limitation of AXFR data size for "BIND", "NSD", "knot DNS", "PowerDNS" in Secondary DNS providers.

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