CVE-2016-0746

critical F5
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
6.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 9% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: February 15, 2016 (3740 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: F5
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-416

Affected Products

f5 nginxcanonical ubuntu linuxdebian debian linuxopensuse leapapple xcode

References

🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 mailman.nginx.org 🔗 seclists.org 🔗 www.debian.org 🔗 www.securitytracker.com