CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-0742
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted UDP DNS response.
Affected configurations
• f5 nginx (>= 0.6.18 < 1.8.1)
• f5 nginx (>= 1.9.0 < 1.9.10)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• opensuse leap 42.1
• apple xcode (< 13.0)
• redhat software collections 1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2892-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425 Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2892-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425 Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818 Third Party Advisory