Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-ed6281346e Urgent: Nginx DNS Resolution Problems
fedora
January 30, 2016
- update to upstream release 1.8.1 - CVE-2016-0747: Insufficient limits of CNAME resolution in resolver - CVE-2016-0746: Use-after-free during CNAME response processing in resolver...
Summary
Nginx is a web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and
IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low
memory usage.
Update Information:
- update to upstream release 1.8.1 - CVE-2016-0747: Insufficient limits of
CNAME resolution in resolver - CVE-2016-0746: Use-after-free during CNAME
response processing in resolver - CVE-2016-0742: Invalid pointer dereference in
resolver
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-fd3428577d 2016-01-30 14:54:08.577538
Name : nginx Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.8.1 Release : 1.fc23 URL : http://nginx.org/ Summary : A high performance web server and reverse proxy server Description : Nginx is a web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage.
Update Instructions
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 .
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Name: nginx
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.8.1
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://nginx.org/
Summary: A high performance web server and reverse proxy server
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