Use After Free Affecting nginx package, versions [,1.0.14)[1.1.0,1.1.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.18% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINX-2333630
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2012

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

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx to version 1.0.14, 1.1.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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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