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Nginx: Insufficient limits of CNAME resolution in resolver (CVE-2016-0747)

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Nginx: Insufficient limits of CNAME resolution in resolver (CVE-2016-0747)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/29/2016
Modified
02/16/2023

Description

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.

Solution(s)

  • nginx-nginx-upgrade-1_8_1
  • nginx-nginx-upgrade-1_9_10

References

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