Gentoo: GLSA 200909-18 High: Nginx Remote Code Execution
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September 18, 2009
A buffer underflow vulnerability in the request URI processing of nginx might enable remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-18
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: nginx: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Date: September 18, 2009
Bugs: #285162
ID: 200909-18
Synopsis
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A buffer underflow vulnerability in the request URI processing of nginx
might enable remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a
Denial of Service.
Background
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nginx is a robust, small and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy
server.
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