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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3029-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
September 20, 2014                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : nginx
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-3616
Debian Bug     : 761940

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was
possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing
virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in
a privileged network position.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-3029-1: nginx security update

September 20, 2014
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in som...

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was
possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing
virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in
a privileged network position.

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