Debian DSA-2721-1 : nginx - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67202

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A buffer overflow has been identified in nginx, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server, when processing certain chunked transfer encoding requests if proxy_pass to untrusted upstream HTTP servers is used. An attacker may use this flaw to perform denial of service attacks, disclose worker process memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the nginx packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67202

File Name: debian_DSA-2721.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2070

BID: 59824

DSA: 2721

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