CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6173
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• nlnetlabs nsd (<= 4.1.10)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_1_11_REL/doc/RELNOTES Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html Third Party Advisory
- https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790 Issue Tracking
- http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_1_11_REL/doc/RELNOTES Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html Third Party Advisory
- https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790 Issue Tracking