CVE-2016-4450
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
os/unix/ngx_files.c in nginx before 1.10.1 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted request, involving writing a client request body to a temporary file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
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
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 15.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.10.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.10.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.10.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.10.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.10.1-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4450.html
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2016/000179.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3592
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90967
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036019
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2991-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4450
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.