CVE-2016-6173

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6173
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6173.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6173
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-09T15:59:01.237Z
Modified
2026-04-10T03:52:33.200743Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nlnetlabs/nsd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nlnetlabs/nsd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
adf87e6c549b78cb72143ead385615311951a315
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.1.10"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
ALPHA
ALPHA2
ANSWERS
NAMED8_STATS
NSD_1_0_1_BETA5
NSD_1_0_1_BP
NSD_1_0_2_REL
NSD_1_0_2_merge_into_1_1_0
NSD_1_0_3_REL
NSD_1_0_3_last_merge
NSD_1_0_BP
NSD_1_1_0B2_REL
NSD_1_1_0_BP
NSD_1_1_0_REL
NSD_1_1_1
NSD_1_1_1_BP
NSD_1_2_0_REL
NSD_1_2_1_REL
NSD_1_2_2_REL
NSD_1_2_3_REL
NSD_1_2_4_REL
NSD_1_2_BP
NSD_1_2_end_of_merge
NSD_1_2_last_merge
NSD_1_3_0_ALPHA_1_REL
NSD_1_3_BP
NSD_1_4_0_ALPHA_1_REL
NSD_2_0_0_REL
NSD_2_0_0_WS_REL
NSD_2_0_1_REL
NSD_2_0_2_REL
NSD_2_0_BP
NSD_2_0_end_of_merge
NSD_2_0_last_merge
NSD_2_1_0_REL
NSD_2_1_1_REL
NSD_2_1_2_REL
NSD_2_1_3_REL
NSD_2_1_4_REL
NSD_2_1_5_REL
NSD_2_1_BP
NSD_2_1_end_of_merge
NSD_2_1_last_merge
NSD_2_2_0_REL
NSD_2_2_1_REL
NSD_2_2_BP2
NSD_2_2_end_of_merge
NSD_2_2_last_merge
NSD_2_3_0_REL
NSD_3_0_1_REL
NSD_3_0_2_REL
NSD_3_0_4_REL
NSD_3_2_1_REL
NSD_3_2_2_REL
NSD_3_2_4_REL
NSD_3_2_6_REL
NSD_3_2_7_REL
NSD_3_XML_SOCK_DB
NSD_3_signalsocket_solution
NSD_4_0_0_BETA1
NSD_4_0_0_BETA2
NSD_4_0_0_BETA3
NSD_4_0_0_BETA4
NSD_4_0_0_RC2
NSD_4_0_0_RC3
NSD_4_0_0_REL
NSD_4_0_0_imp_1
NSD_4_0_0_imp_2
NSD_4_0_0_imp_3
NSD_4_0_0_imp_4
NSD_4_0_0_imp_6
NSD_4_0_1_RC1
NSD_4_0_1_RC2
NSD_4_0_1_REL
NSD_4_0_2_REL
NSD_4_0_3_REL
NSD_4_1_0_RC1
NSD_4_1_0_REL
NSD_4_1_10_RC1
NSD_4_1_10_RC2
NSD_4_1_10_REL
NSD_4_1_1_RC1
NSD_4_1_1_REL
NSD_4_1_2_RC1
NSD_4_1_2_RC2
NSD_4_1_2_REL
NSD_4_1_4_RC1
NSD_4_1_5_REL
NSD_4_1_6_RC1
NSD_4_1_6_RC2
NSD_4_1_6_REL
NSD_4_1_7_RC1
NSD_4_1_8_RC1
NSD_4_1_8_REL
PostScrewUp
before_optimization
new_zf_parser_start

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6173.json"