Fedora 23 : nginx-1.8.1-1.fc23 (2016-fd3428577d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89648

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- update to upstream release 1.8.1 - CVE-2016-0747:
Insufficient limits of CNAME resolution in resolver - CVE-2016-0746: Use-after-free during CNAME response processing in resolver - CVE-2016-0742: Invalid pointer dereference in resolver

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nginx package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3ee39ed

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89648

File Name: fedora_2016-fd3428577d.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2016

Reference Information