Use After Free Affecting nginx-mainline package, versions <1.25.4-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-NGINXMAINLINE-6248713
  • published15 Feb 2024
  • disclosed14 Feb 2024

Introduced: 14 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-24990  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard nginx-mainline to version 1.25.4-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx-mainline package and not the nginx-mainline package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate.

Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html .

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

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