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SUSE: CVE-2016-6172: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-6172: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/26/2016
Modified
01/26/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-pdns
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-ldap
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-ldap-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-lua
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-lua-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mydns
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mydns-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mysql-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-postgresql
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-postgresql-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-sqlite3
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-sqlite3-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-debugsource

References

  • DLA-627-1
  • DSA-3664
  • 91678
  • 1036242
  • CVE-2016-6172

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