CVE-2016-6172
Published Sep 26, 2016
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and secondary DNS server crash) via a large (1) AXFR or (2) IXFR response.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 4
- Exploitability score
- 2.2
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.1
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-400
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[ { "nodes": [ { "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "4863BE36-D16A-4D75-90D9-FD76DB5B48B7" }, { "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "03117DF1-3BEC-4B8D-AD63-DBBDB2126081" } ], "operator": "OR" } ] }, { "nodes": [ { "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "vulnerable": true, "matchCriteriaId": "B6BCE24C-DB2C-4592-BE28-B1CCDC959DF5", "versionEndIncluding": "4.0.0" } ], "operator": "OR" } ] } ]