CVE-2016-6171 (GCVE-0-2016-6171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-09 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
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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.
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