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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3592-1 nginx -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

nginx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4450.

More information:

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a temporary file might result in denial of service: Malformed requests could crash worker processes.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-5+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.