Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6172
6.8
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 26, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory