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CVE-2016-0742

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-01-30 nginx -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-0742
Phase Assigned(20151216)

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.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [nginx] 20160126 nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0747)
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587
DEBIAN DSA-3473
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:0371
UBUNTU USN-2892-1