CVE-2011-4315 Information

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.

Reference

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