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Debian DSA-3592-1 : nginx - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91431

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Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the nginx packages.

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

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/nginx

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3592

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91431

File Name: debian_DSA-3592.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2016

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4450

DSA: 3592