CVE-2016-6170
ISC BIND through 9.9.9-P1, 9.10.x through 9.10.4-P1, and 9.11.x through 9.11.0b1 allows primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service…
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- redhat
Description
ISC BIND through 9.9.9-P1, 9.10.x through 9.10.4-P1, and 9.11.x through 9.11.0b1 allows primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (secondary DNS server crash) via a large AXFR response, and possibly allows IXFR servers to cause a denial of service (IXFR client crash) via a large IXFR response and allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (primary DNS server crash) via a large UPDATE message.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 40.9% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- [dns-operations] 20160706 DNS activities in Japan (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [dns-operations] 20160706 DNS activities in Japan (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160706 Malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondaries (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1036241 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [dns-operations] 20160704 DNS activities in Japan (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201610-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01390 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 91611 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/sischkg/xfer-limit/blob/master/README.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01390/169/CVE-2016-6170 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353563 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-7104 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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