Resource Exhaustion Affecting nginx package, versions <1.14.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.97% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NGINX-1554933
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed7 Nov 2018

Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16843  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 nginx to version 1.14.1-1 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.

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.

CVSS Scores

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