[Secure-testing-team] Bug#830808: pdns: CVE-2016-6172: Improper restriction of zone size limit

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: pdns
Version: 4.0.0~beta1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4128

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for pdns.

CVE-2016-6172[0]:
Improper restriction of zone size limit

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6172
[1] https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/4128

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

As mentioned at DebConf, this is a minor issue which does not warrant
a DSA. But it will be nice if you can fix this via a Jessie point
release. Thanks a lot for your work on pdns!

Regards,
Salvatore

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