CVE-2016-6171

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 86.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.6 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-02-09 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:22Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-07-06

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

7cb2267ff35d1f8b631094b2894aacde88d2e4883e0a3c200ca7da0d07c9b61f

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160706 Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondarieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com91678http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.dns-oarc.net[dns-operations] 20160704 DNS activities in Japanhttps://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160706 Re: Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondarieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• gitlab.labs.nic.czhttps://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/c546a70563ef4c7badb7cb5bdf6d1ba8e7adae82/NEWSx_refsource_CONFIRM
• gitlab.labs.nic.czhttps://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/464x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.mdx_refsource_MISC