Debian DLA-404-1 : nginx security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88422

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a invalid pointer deference in nginx, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server. An invalid pointer dereference might occur during DNS server response processing, allowing an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause worker process crash

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in nginx version 0.7.67-3+squeeze4+deb6u1.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected nginx, and nginx-dbg packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88422

File Name: debian_DLA-404.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/28/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0742

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