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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: USN-7014-1 Critical: nginx Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2024
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Investigate the recent nginx security update issued for Ubuntu, addressing a severe denial of service vulnerability caused by improperly formatted requests.
nginx could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

nginx could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- nginx: small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Details:

It was discovered that the nginx ngx_http_mp4 module incorrectly handled

certain malformed mp4 files. In environments where the mp4 directive is in

use, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause nginx to

crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update Ubuntu network traffic nginx

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   nginx                           1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
   nginx-common                    1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
   nginx-core                      1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
   nginx-extras                    1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
   nginx-full                      1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
   nginx-light                     1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   nginx                           1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
   nginx-common                    1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
   nginx-core                      1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
   nginx-extras                    1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
   nginx-full                      1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
   nginx-light                     1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   nginx                           1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6
   nginx-common                    1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6
   nginx-core                      1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6
   nginx-extras                    1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6
   nginx-full                      1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6
   nginx-light                     1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7014-1

CVE-2024-7347

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7014-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update Ubuntu network traffic nginx

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/1.24.0-2ubuntu7.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/1.18.0-6ubuntu14.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/1.18.0-0ubuntu1.6

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