CVE-2016-6172
Published
CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
7.1
HIGH
Affected
2
PROJECTS
Description
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and secondary DNS server crash) via a large (1) AXFR or (2) IXFR response.
These patches provide the limitation of AXFR data size for "BIND", "NSD", "knot DNS", "PowerDNS" in Secondary DNS providers.
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