VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4450

high
Published 2016-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

os/unix/ngx_files.c in nginx before 1.10.1 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted request, involving writing a client request body to a temporary file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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 with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.10.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.10.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.10.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.10.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.10.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5nginx{"startIncluding":"1.3.9","endExcluding":"1.10.1"}1.10.1
f5nginx1.11.0
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"1.3.9","endExcluding":"1.10.1"}1.10.1
nginx nginxnginx1.11.0

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.