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Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-9652 Moderate: Nginx Buffer Underflow Issue

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Alert for Nginx on Fedora 10, addresses buffer overflow vulnerability. Use yum for secure installation.

Summary

Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3

proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep 14 2009 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.7.62-1

- update to 0.7.62

- fixes CVE-2009-2629

* Sun Aug 2 2009 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.7.61-1

- update to new stable 0.7.61

- remove third party module

* Sat Apr 11 2009 Jeremy Hinegardner 0.6.36-1

- update to 0.6.36

* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6.35-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Feb 19 2009 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.6.35-2

- rebuild

* Thu Feb 19 2009 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.6.35-1

- update to 0.6.35

* Sat Jan 17 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.6.34-2

- rebuild with new openssl

* Tue Dec 30 2008 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.6.34-1

- update to 0.6.34

* Thu Dec 4 2008 Michael Schwendt - 0.6.33-2

- Fix inclusion of /usr/share/nginx tree => no unowned directories.

* Sun Nov 23 2008 Jeremy Hinegardner - 0.6.33-1

- update to 0.6.33

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #523105 - CVE-2009-2629 nginx: ngx_http_parse_complex_uri() buffer underflow vulnerability (VU#180065)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523105

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update nginx' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Name: nginx
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.7.62
Release: 1.fc10
Summary: Robust, small and high performance http and reverse proxy server

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