Remote DNS Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability in Knot DNS before 2.3.0

CVE-2016-6171 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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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