VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0746

critical
Published 2016-02-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.9.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.9.10-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.9.10-1
debian debiansidfixed1.9.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.9.10-1
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
suse suse42.1affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5nginx{"startIncluding":"0.6.18","endIncluding":"1.8.0"}
macos applexcode{"endExcluding":"13.0"}13.0
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"0.6.18","endIncluding":"1.8.0"}
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"1.9.0","endExcluding":"1.9.10"}1.9.10

References

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.