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CVE-2016-6173

Published: 9 February 2017

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
ebarretto
Not considered a security issue due to trust relationship,
see #830806

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nsd
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Not vulnerable

disco Not vulnerable

eoan Not vulnerable

focal Not vulnerable

groovy Not vulnerable

hirsute Not vulnerable

impish Not vulnerable

jammy Not vulnerable

kinetic Not vulnerable

lunar Not vulnerable

mantic Not vulnerable

noble Not vulnerable

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Needed

yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H