Security Advisory
CVE-2016-0747
5.3
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
February 15, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory