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CVE-2016-6171
HIGH · CVSS 8.6
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-09T15:59:01.190 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:34.477

Summary

Knot DNS before 2.3.0 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and slave server crash) via a large zone transfer for (1) DDNS, (2) AXFR, or (3) IXFR.

Affected products

knot-dns — knot_dns

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References

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