Published: 09/02/2017 Updated: 24/02/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 694

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NSD prior to 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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Debian Bug report logs - #830806 nsd: CVE-2016-6173: Improper restriction of zone size limit Package: src:nsd; Maintainer for src:nsd is nsd packagers <nsd@packagesdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:33:06 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstrea ...

CWE-399 https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790 https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3 http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_1_11_REL/doc/RELNOTES http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830806 https://nvd.nist.gov

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