Vulnerability CVE-2016-0742
Published: 2016-02-15

Description:
The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted UDP DNS response.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Novell -> LEAP 
Nginx -> Nginx 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00042.html
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3473
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034869
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2892-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa115
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302587
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
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