Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201661720000000
Revision Date:2016-09-26Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-6172 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-6172
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND pdns package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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