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CVE-2016-6171

Estado: ModificadaAlta (8.6)—

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.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Knot-dns — Knot DNS

CWE

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