Check Point Advisories

F5 Nginx Denial of Service (CVE-2016-0742)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2016-1387
Date Published:	10 Oct 2024
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 10 October, 2024
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2016-0742
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80
Who is Vulnerable?	F5 Nginx 0.6.18 up to 1.8.1 F5 Nginx 1.9.0 up to 1.9.10 Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 Debian Linux 7.0 Debian Linux 8.0 Debian Linux 9.0 openSUSE Leap 42.1 Apple Xcode up to 13.0 Red Hat Software Collections 1.0
Vulnerability Description	A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in F5 Nginx. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the F5 Nginx Denial of Service (CVE-2016-0742) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: F5 Nginx Denial of Service (CVE-2016-0742)