Denial of Service Vulnerability in PowerDNS Authoritative Server

CVE-2016-6172 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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