CVE-2011-4315
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in compression-pointer processing in core/ngx_resolver.c in nginx before 1.0.10 allows remote resolvers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long response.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.1.8-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.1.8-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.1.8-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.1.8-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.1.8-1 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070569.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00005.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/8
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47097
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48577
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4268/nginx
- http://www.nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.0
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50710
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4315
CWEs
CWE-787
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.