Lucene search

K
ubuntuUbuntuUSN-4967-1
HistoryMay 26, 2021 - 12:00 a.m.

nginx vulnerability

2021-05-2600:00:00
ubuntu.com
162

8.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.52 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.6%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 21.04
  • Ubuntu 20.10
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

  • nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Details

Luis Merino, Markus Vervier, and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that nginx
incorrectly handled responses to the DNS resolver. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause nginx to crash, resulting in a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code.