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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
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
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

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 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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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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