CVE-2016-0742

high-risk
Published 2016-02-15

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.

Do I need to act?

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80.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 20% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (9)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Redhat F5 Apple Opensuse

References (22)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html
Vendor Advisory http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869
Third Party Advisory 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
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
Third Party Advisory https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html
Vendor Advisory http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
Mailing List http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869
Third Party Advisory 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
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587
and 2 more references
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 20/34 · Moderate
Exposure 15/34 · Moderate