CVE-2012-1180
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Use-after-free
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txt ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txtPatch
- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077966.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076646.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076671.htmlAdvisory
- http://osvdb.org/80124
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/65Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48465Advisory