CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-1180

Use After Free

Published: Apr 17, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nginx F5 0.1.0 (including) 1.0.14 (excluding)
Nginx F5 1.1.0 (including) 1.1.17 (excluding)
Nginx Ubuntu hardy *
Nginx Ubuntu lucid *
Nginx Ubuntu maverick *
Nginx Ubuntu natty *
Nginx Ubuntu oneiric *
Nginx Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References