Debian: DSA-3029-1: nginx security update

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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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3029-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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/

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