CVE-2016-6172 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Authoritative Server

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption8 documents6 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Open-xchange PdnsPowerdns Authoritative ServerOpensuse Leap+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 26
Latest updateMay 14

Description

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and secondary DNS server crash) via a large (1) AXFR or (2) IXFR response.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianopen-xchange/pdns< 4.0.1-1+3
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-fr33-w8fm-p45j: PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6172: PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4↗2016-09-26
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OSV
CVE-2016-6172: PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4↗2016-09-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-6172: pdns - PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS ...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6172 pdns: Improper restriction of zone size limit↗2016-07-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6172 pdns: Improper restriction of zone size limit [epel-all]↗2016-07-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6172 pdns: Improper restriction of zone size limit [fedora-all]↗2016-07-07
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