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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702721
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2721-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nginx' package(s) announced via the DSA-2721-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nginx' package(s) announced via the DSA-2721-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A buffer overflow has been identified in nginx, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server, when processing certain chunked transfer encoding requests if proxy_pass to untrusted upstream HTTP servers is used. An attacker may use this flaw to perform denial of service attacks, disclose worker process memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'nginx' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-2070
55181
http://secunia.com/advisories/55181
59824
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59824
DSA-2721
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2721
FEDORA-2013-8182
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105950.html
GLSA-201310-04
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml
[nginx-announce] 20130513 nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2070)
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000114.html
[oss-security] 20130507 Re: nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/291
[oss-security] 20130513 nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2070)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/13/3
http://nginx.org/download/patch.2013.proxy.txt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962525
nginx-cve20132070-dos(84172)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84172
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