Slackware: 2023-153-02 Moderate: Patch for Nginx Service Disruption Risk

Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Wed May 12 13:06:39 PDT 2004 patches/packages/apache-1.3.29-i486-2.tgz: Patched four security issues in the Apache web server as noted on https://httpd.apache.org/. These security fixes were backported from Apache 1.3.31: In mod_digest, verify whether the nonce returned in the client response is one we issued ourselves. This problem does not affect mod_auth_digest. (CAN-2003-0987) Escape arbitrary data before writing into the errorlog. (CAN-2003-0020) Fix starvation issue on listening sockets where a short-lived connection on a rarely-accessed listening socket will cause a child to hold the accept mutex and block out new connections until another connection arrives on that rarely-accessed listening socket. (CAN-2004-0174) Fix parsing of Allow/Deny rules using IP addresses without a netmask; issue is only known to affect big-endian 64-bit platforms (CAN-2003-0993) For more