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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4750-1 nginx -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Aug 2020

Affected Packages:

nginx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 964950.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-11724.

More information:

It was reported that the Lua module for Nginx, a high-performance web and reverse proxy server, is prone to a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.2-2+deb10u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

For the detailed security status of nginx please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/nginx