Security Advisory

CVE-2016-0747

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-02-15 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 22:30:04
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.