Use After Free Affecting nginx package, versions <1.9.10-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.47% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NGINX-1554652
  • published15 Feb 2016
  • disclosed15 Feb 2016

Introduced: 15 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-0746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 nginx to version 1.9.10-1 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 the resolver in nginx 0.6.18 through 1.8.0 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted DNS response related to CNAME response processing.

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