ubuntu · CVE-2016-0742

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0742 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nginx), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6, ignored 2.

Description:

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.