Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-0747

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.

  • Published: Feb 15, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-0747
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.3
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
f5 / nginx 0.6.18 1.8.1
f5 / nginx 1.9.0 1.9.10
canonical / ubuntu_linux 15.10 15.10.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x
debian / debian_linux 7.0 7.0.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x
opensuse / leap 42.1 42.1.x
apple / xcode - 13.0