USN-2351-1: nginx vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2351-1

22nd September, 2014

nginx vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

nginx could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software description

  • nginx
    – small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Details

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that nginx
incorrectly reused cached SSL sessions. An attacker could possibly use this
issue in certain configurations to obtain access to information from a
different virtual host.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
nginx-extras

1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-full

1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-core

1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-light

1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-naxsi

1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-3616

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