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Fedora 11 Nginx 0.7.62 Critical Update: Buffer Underflow Fix

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Fedora 11's Nginx update resolves buffer overflow vulnerability for enhanced functionality. Use dnf for 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

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/

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Name: nginx
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.7.62
Release: 1.fc11
Summary: Robust, small and high performance http and reverse proxy server

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