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CVE-2016-6173

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Date: February 9, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html

Url: http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_1_11_REL/doc/RELNOTES

Url: https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6173

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6173

Url: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6173

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4

Url: https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6173

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version NSD_4_1_11_RC1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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