FKIE_CVE-2016-6172
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-09-26 16:59 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
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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.
References
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