When was CVE-2011-4315 disclosed?

CVE-2011-4315 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on December 8, 2011, with the most recent update on April 29, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2011-4315 actively exploited?

CVE-2011-4315 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 86.3% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

How do I remediate CVE-2011-4315?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2011-4315, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

CVE-2011-4315

NONENVD 0.0

0.0

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.

CVSS v3: —
EG Score: —
EPSS: 86.3%
KEV: Not listed

References (20)

secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070569.html
secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00005.html
secalert@redhathttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/10
secalert@redhathttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/8
secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/47097
secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/48577
secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml
secalert@redhathttp://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4268/nginx
secalert@redhathttp://www.nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.0
secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50710
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/070569.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00005.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/17/8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/47097

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