Security advisory

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  "id": "f817fb0c6de36e7a870e5aa2b5aef1a8c719b3b55bfcbe289a79c949371bbda8",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6173",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6173",
    "summary": "NSD before 4.1.11 allows remote DNS master servers to cause a denial of service (/tmp disk consumption and slave server crash) via a zone transfer with unlimited data.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6173",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6173",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-6173"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nlnetlabs/nsd",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "adf87e6c549b78cb72143ead385615311951a315"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:nsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.1.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "NSD_4_1_10_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_10_RC2",
            "NSD_4_1_10_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_8_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_8_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_7_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_6_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_6_RC2",
            "NSD_4_1_6_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_5_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_4_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_2_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_2_RC2",
            "NSD_4_1_2_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_1_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_1_RC1",
            "NSD_4_1_0_REL",
            "NSD_4_1_0_RC1",
            "NSD_4_0_3_REL",
            "NSD_4_0_2_REL",
            "NSD_4_0_1_REL",
            "NSD_4_0_1_RC2",
            "NSD_4_0_1_RC1",
            "NSD_4_0_0_REL",
            "NSD_4_0_0_RC3",
            "NSD_4_0_0_RC2",
            "NSD_4_0_0_BETA4",
            "NSD_4_0_0_BETA3",
            "NSD_4_0_0_BETA2",
            "NSD_4_0_0_BETA1",
            "NSD_4_0_0_imp_6",
            "NSD_4_0_0_imp_4",
            "NSD_4_0_0_imp_3",
            "NSD_4_0_0_imp_2",
            "NSD_4_0_0_imp_1",
            "NSD_3_2_7_REL",
            "NSD_3_2_6_REL",
            "NSD_3_2_4_REL",
            "NSD_3_2_2_REL",
            "NSD_3_2_1_REL",
            "NSD_3_0_4_REL",
            "NSD_3_0_2_REL",
            "NSD_3_0_1_REL",
            "NSD_3_signalsocket_solution",
            "NSD_3_XML_SOCK_DB",
            "NSD_2_3_0_REL",
            "NSD_2_2_last_merge",
            "NSD_2_2_end_of_merge",
            "NSD_2_2_1_REL",
            "NSD_2_2_0_REL",
            "NSD_2_2_BP2",
            "NSD_2_1_2_REL",
            "NSD_2_1_BP",
            "NSD_2_1_1_REL",
            "NSD_2_1_last_merge",
            "NSD_2_1_end_of_merge",
            "NSD_2_1_5_REL",
            "NSD_2_1_4_REL",
            "NSD_2_1_3_REL",
            "NSD_2_1_0_REL",
            "NSD_2_0_BP",
            "NSD_2_0_last_merge",
            "NSD_2_0_end_of_merge",
            "NSD_2_0_2_REL",
            "NSD_2_0_1_REL",
            "NSD_2_0_0_REL",
            "NSD_2_0_0_WS_REL",
            "NSD_1_4_0_ALPHA_1_REL",
            "NSD_1_3_BP",
            "NSD_1_3_0_ALPHA_1_REL",
            "NSD_1_2_last_merge",
            "NSD_1_2_end_of_merge",
            "NSD_1_2_BP",
            "NSD_1_2_4_REL",
            "NSD_1_2_3_REL",
            "NSD_1_2_2_REL",
            "NSD_1_2_1_REL",
            "NSD_1_2_0_REL",
            "NSD_1_1_1_BP",
            "NSD_1_1_1",
            "NSD_1_1_0_BP",
            "NSD_1_1_0_REL",
            "NSD_1_1_0B2_REL",
            "NSD_1_0_2_REL",
            "NAMED8_STATS",
            "NSD_1_0_3_last_merge",
            "NSD_1_0_3_REL",
            "NSD_1_0_2_merge_into_1_1_0",
            "before_optimization",
            "NSD_1_0_1_BP",
            "NSD_1_0_1_BETA5",
            "NSD_1_0_BP",
            "ALPHA2",
            "ALPHA",
            "new_zf_parser_start",
            "PostScrewUp",
            "ANSWERS"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6173.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.751741760Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md",
        "https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-July/015058.html",
        "https://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2016-August/002342.html",
        "https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=790"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6173",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440086,
  "published_at": "2017-02-09T15:59:01.237+00:00"
}