Use After Free Affecting nginx package, versions [,1.8.1)[1.9.0, 1.9.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.42% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINX-2333631
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx to version 1.8.1, 1.9.10 or higher.

Overview

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