CVE-2016-6173

Published February 9th, 2017

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

7.8

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

NSD before 4.1.11 allows remote DNS master servers to cause a denial of service (/tmp disk consumption and slave server crash) via a zone transfer with unlimited data.

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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