CVE-2016-0742

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-02-15 19:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Nginx 1.9.0

1.9.0

Nginx 1.9.1

1.9.1

Nginx 1.9.2

1.9.2

Nginx 1.9.3

1.9.3

Nginx 1.9.4

1.9.4

Nginx 1.9.5

1.9.5

Nginx 1.9.6

1.9.6

Nginx 1.9.7

1.9.7

Nginx 1.9.8

1.9.8

Nginx 1.9.9

1.9.9

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Debian Debian Linux 1.2

1.2

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:0371

[nginx] 20160126 nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0747)

DSA-3473

1034869

USN-2892-1

RHSA-2016:1425

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587

GLSA-201606-06

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