CVE-2016-6173
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.
02 Description
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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 2.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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.
04 Metadata
- 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
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3efae87d2e6e16e30f5e3eea48a488dd811e0baecacb678019dec85a556dfa23
05 Affected products
06 References
- open.nlnetlabs.nl[nsd-users] 20160809 NSD 4.1.11https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160706 Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondarieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/3
- www.securityfocus.com91678http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91678
- www.nlnetlabs.nlhttps://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790
- lists.dns-oarc.net[dns-operations] 20160704 DNS activities in Japanhttps://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160706 Re: Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondarieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4
- www.nlnetlabs.nlhttp://www.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/nsd/tags/NSD_4_1_11_REL/doc/RELNOTES
- github.comhttps://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- nsd Fixed in 4.1.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- nsd Fixed in 4.1.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- nsd Fixed in 4.1.11-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- nsd No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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