Use After Free Affecting nginx package, versions <1.1.17-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NGINX-1554560
  • published17 Apr 2012
  • disclosed17 Apr 2012

Introduced: 17 Apr 2012

CVE-2012-1180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 nginx to version 1.1.17-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx package and not the nginx package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.

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