CVE-2016-6171
HIGH8.6EPSS 2.1%Published: 2/9/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6171
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/knotfrom 0, < 2.3.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |