CVE-2016-0746

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-416: 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.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

openSUSE Leap 42.1

42.1

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

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:0371

Third Party Advisory

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

Vendor Advisory

DSA-3473

Third Party Advisory

1034869

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

USN-2892-1

Broken Link

RHSA-2016:1425

Third Party Advisory

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

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302588

Issue Tracking

GLSA-201606-06

Third Party Advisory

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