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CVE-2016-6171
Published: Feb 9, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20160706 Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondaries
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91678
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[dns-operations] 20160704 DNS activities in Japan
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[oss-security] 20160706 Re: Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondaries
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https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/464
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https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md
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