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CVE-2016-0742

CVE information

Published

7 years ago

Last Modified

1 year ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
0.6.18 1.8.1
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
1.9.0 1.9.10
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 13.0
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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