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
CVSS score not scored
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.