nginx: denial of service
| Package(s): | nginx | CVE #(s): | CVE-2016-0742 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | January 27, 2016 | Updated: | January 28, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Debian LTS advisory:
It was discovered that there was a invalid pointer deference in nginx, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server. An invalid pointer dereference might occur during DNS server response processing, allowing an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause worker process crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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