Resource Exhaustion Affecting knot package, versions <2.3.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-KNOT-296123
  • published9 Feb 2017
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-6171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 knot to version 2.3.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream knot package and not the knot package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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