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Ubuntu: USN-2892-1 (CVE-2016-0747): nginx vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2892-1 (CVE-2016-0747): nginx vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/15/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-core
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-extras
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-full
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-light
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-naxsi

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