Use After Free in Apple Xcode
CVE-2016-0746
Use-after-free vulnerability in the resolver in nginx 0.6.18 through 1.8.0 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted DNS resp…
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
EPSS: 0.063 (91.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Apple Xcode
- F5 Nginx
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 15.10
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
- Opensuse Leap — versions 42.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0371 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- GLSA-201606-06 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- 1034869 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- [nginx] 20160126 nginx security advisory (CVE-2016-0742, CVE-2016-0746, CVE-2016-0747) (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- RHSA-2016:1425 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- DSA-3473 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- USN-2892-1 (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-0746?
- CVE-2016-0746 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Apple Xcode, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-02-15.
- How severe is CVE-2016-0746?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-0746 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.