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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 26, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-6172

CVE-2016-6172

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.

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