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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6171

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 knot

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 knot

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 knot

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org