CVE-2016-6171

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CVE-2016-6171

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CVE-2016-6171 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	5	7.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network	Network
Access Complexity	Low	Medium
Authentication	None	None
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	Partial	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.6
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 987869 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jul 6 13:19:41 2016
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 26 20:05:21 2022