Nginx Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2016-0747 - Vulnerability Database

Nginx Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2016-0747

Medium

Reference: CVE-2016-0747

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0747

Title: Nginx Resource Management Errors Vulnerability

Overview:

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.