PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-01-26
Candidate: CVE-2016-0742
PublicDate: 2016-02-15 19:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0742
 http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2016-January/049700.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2892-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812806
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+bug/1538165
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L [5.3 MEDIUM]

Patches_nginx:
 upstream: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/c44fd4e837f979912749a5a19490ccb9b46398d3
upstream_nginx: released (1.9.10-1, 1.9.10, 1.8.1)
precise_nginx: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_nginx: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_nginx: released (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.4)
trusty/esm_nginx: released (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.4)
vivid_nginx: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_nginx: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_nginx: DNE
wily_nginx: released (1.9.3-1ubuntu1.1)
xenial_nginx: released (1.9.10-0ubuntu1)
esm-infra/xenial_nginx: released (1.9.10-0ubuntu1)
yakkety_nginx: released (1.9.10-0ubuntu1)
zesty_nginx: released (1.9.10-0ubuntu1)
devel_nginx: released (1.9.10-0ubuntu1)