CVE-2016-6172

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6172
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6172.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6172
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-26T16:59:04.947Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:29:19.845672Z
Severity
  • 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/powerdns/pdns

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/powerdns/pdns
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ba64cecd417688dc39c75e92f1a23b91f7f46d64

Affected versions

auth-3.*

auth-3.1-rc1
auth-3.1-rc2
auth-3.1-rc3
auth-3.2-rc1
auth-3.2-rc2
auth-3.2-rc3
auth-3.2-rc4
auth-3.3
auth-3.3-rc1
auth-3.3-rc2
auth-3.4.0
auth-3.4.0-rc1
auth-3.4.0-rc2

auth-4.*

auth-4.0.0
auth-4.0.0-alpha1
auth-4.0.0-alpha2
auth-4.0.0-alpha3
auth-4.0.0-beta1
auth-4.0.0-rc1
auth-4.0.0-rc2

dnsdist-1.*

dnsdist-1.0.0
dnsdist-1.0.0-alpha1
dnsdist-1.0.0-alpha2
dnsdist-1.0.0-beta1

Other

rec-3-0
rec-3-0-1

rec-3.*

rec-3.0
rec-3.0.1
rec-3.1.4
rec-3.3.1
rec-3.5
rec-3.5-rc1
rec-3.5-rc3
rec-3.5-rc4
rec-3.5-rc5
rec-3.6.0
rec-3.6.0-rc1
rec-3.7.0
rec-3.7.0-rc1
rec-3.7.0-rc2

rec-4.*

rec-4.0.0
rec-4.0.0-alpha1
rec-4.0.0-alpha2
rec-4.0.0-alpha3
rec-4.0.0-beta1
rec-4.0.0-rc1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6172.json"