CVE-2012-1180
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.1.17-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.1.17-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.1.17-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.1.17-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.1.17-1 |
| fedora | 15 | affected | |
| fedora | 16 | affected | |
| fedora | 17 | affected | |
| debian | 6.0 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077966.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076646.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076671.html
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txt
- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html
- http://osvdb.org/80124
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/65
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48465
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48577
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4530/nginx
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4531/nginx
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2434
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:043
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52578
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026827
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803856
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74191
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14173096
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1180
CWEs
CWE-416
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.