CVE-2016-0746

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-02-15

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Xcode (Apple)
• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Nginx (F5)
• Leap (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html
• http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2892-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302588
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818