metadata/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201310-04">
  <title>nginx: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in nginx, the worst of
    which may allow execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nginx</product>
  <announced>October 06, 2013</announced>
  <revised>October 06, 2013: 1</revised>
  <bug>458726</bug>
  <bug>468870</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/nginx" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.1-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.1-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>nginx is a robust, small, and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy
      server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nginx. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly
      resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the
      process, or a Denial of Service condition. Furthermore, a
      context-dependent attacker may be able to obtain sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All nginx users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/nginx-1.4.1-r2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0337">CVE-2013-0337</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2028">CVE-2013-2028</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2070">CVE-2013-2070</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:53:05 +0000">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:49:01 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>