CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6172
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• powerdns authoritative server (<= 4.0.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00085.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036242 www.securitytracker.com
- https://doc.powerdns.com/md/changelog/#powerdns-authoritative-server-401 Release Notes
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4128 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4133 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/4134 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md Patch
- https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00085.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036242 www.securitytracker.com
- https://doc.powerdns.com/md/changelog/#powerdns-authoritative-server-401 Release Notes
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4128 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4133 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/4134 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md Patch
- https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory