VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-6173

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.92%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-02-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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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