Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2434-1 nginx -- sensitive information leak
- Date Reported:
- 19 Mar 2012
- Affected Packages:
- nginx
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 664137.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1180. - More information:
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Matthew Daley discovered a memory disclosure vulnerability in nginx. In previous versions of this web server, an attacker can receive the content of previously freed memory if an upstream server returned a specially crafted HTTP response, potentially exposing sensitive information.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.67-3+squeeze2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.17-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.