Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx resolver allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or other impact via crafted DNS response

Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx resolver allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or other impact via crafted DNS response

CVE-2016-0746 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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