vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-0742: nginx -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2016
Added
Feb 15, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-nginx
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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