CVE-2016-0746
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-02-15 19:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 22:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-16
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 451612c0b05bef314f8f40bbe23615f9e15e146b96ad9b9f9d8110e06bf3d039
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0371http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html
- bto.bluecoat.comhttps://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201606-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
- www.securitytracker.com1034869http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869
- mailman.nginx.org[nginx] 20160126 nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0747)http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1425https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425
- www.debian.orgDSA-3473http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2892-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2892-1
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302588
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818
- seclists.org20210921 APPLE-SA-2021-09-20-4 Xcode 13http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- nginx Fixed in 1.9.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- nginx Fixed in 1.9.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- nginx Fixed in 1.9.10-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- nginx Fixed in 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- nginx Fixed in 1.9.10-0ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.