High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-0742
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-0742
Complete source record
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