Candidate: CVE-2016-6172
PublicDate: 2016-09-26 16:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6172
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/06/4
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4128
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.8 MEDIUM]

Patches_pdns:
upstream_pdns: released (4.0.1-1)
precise_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_pdns: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_pdns: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_pdns: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_pdns: DNE
wily_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_pdns: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
cosmic_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
disco_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
eoan_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
focal_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
groovy_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
hirsute_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
impish_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
jammy_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)
devel_pdns: not-affected (4.0.1-1)