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Nginx: NULL pointer dereference in HTTP/3 (CVE-2024-24989)

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Nginx: NULL pointer dereference in HTTP/3 (CVE-2024-24989)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/15/2024
Created
02/16/2024
Added
02/15/2024
Modified
02/16/2024

Description

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate. Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html . NOTE: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Solution(s)

  • nginx-nginx-upgrade-1_25_4

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