Denial of Service and Disk Consumption Vulnerability in NSD DNS Server

CVE-2016-6173 · HIGH Severity

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

NSD before 4.1.11 allows remote DNS master servers to cause a denial of service (/tmp disk consumption and slave server crash) via a zone transfer with unlimited data.

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