Nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0747)

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Hello!

Several problems in nginx resolver were identified, which might
allow an attacker to cause worker process crash, or might have
potential other impact:

  • Invalid pointer dereference might occur during DNS server response
    processing, allowing an attacker who is able to forge UDP
    packets from the DNS server to cause worker process crash
    (CVE-2016-0742).

  • Use-after-free condition might occur during CNAME response
    processing. This problem allows an attacker who is able to trigger
    name resolution to cause worker process crash, or might
    have potential other impact (CVE-2016-0746).

  • CNAME resolution was insufficiently limited, allowing an attacker who
    is able to trigger arbitrary name resolution to cause excessive
    resource
    consumption in worker processes (CVE-2016-0747).

The problems affect nginx 0.6.18 - 1.9.9 if the “resolver” directive
is used in a configuration file.

The problems are fixed in nginx 1.9.10, 1.8.1.

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/