[Secure-testing-team] Bug#830809: knot: CVE-2016-6171: Improper restriction of zone size limit

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: knot
Version: 2.2.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/464

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for knot.

CVE-2016-6171[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-2016-6171
[1] https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/464

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. This does
not warrant a DSA, it is marked already as no-dsa in the
security-tracker.

Regards,
Salvatore