CVE-2016-0746 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-0746

Use-after-free vulnerability in the resolver in nginx 0.6.18 through 1.8.0...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the resolver in nginx 0.6.18 through 1.8.0 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted DNS response related to CNAME response processing.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

nginx, ubuntu linux, debian linux, leap, xcode
Vulnerable Versions:
0.6.18, 1.9.0, 14.04, 15.10, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 42.1, 0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 15th, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.