CVE-2016-6172 (GCVE-0-2016-6172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-26 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
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CWE
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