CVE-2016-4450

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

os/unix/ngx_files.c in nginx before 1.10.1 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted request, involving writing a client request body to a temporary file.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. 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:H).

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

2016-06-07 14:06:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:30:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

16.04

Nginx 1.10.0

1.10.0

Nginx 1.11.0

1.11.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

[nginx-announce] 20160531 nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-4450)

Vendor Advisory

DSA-3592

90967

1036019

USN-2991-1

RHSA-2016:1425

GLSA-201606-06

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