openSUSE Security Update: nginx: update to 1.4.7 ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0450-1 Rating: moderate References: #869076 Cross-References: CVE-2014-0133 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
nginx was updated to 1.4.7 to fix bugs and security issues.
Fixed security issues: * CVE-2014-0133: nginx:heap-based buffer overflow in SPDY implementation
New upstream release 1.4.7 (bnc#869076) (CVE-2014-0133) *) Security: a heap memory buffer overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a specially crafted request by ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-0133). Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr. Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina. *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_next_upstream" directive. Thanks to Lucas Molas. *) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might not work when reading a request body using chunked transfer encoding; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. Thanks to Lucas Molas. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when proxying WebSocket connections. *) Bugfix: the $ssl_session_id variable contained full session serialized instead of just a session id. Thanks to Ivan Ristić. *) Bugfix: client connections might be immediately closed if deferred accept was used; the bug had appeared in 1.3.15. *) Bugfix: alerts "zero size buf in output" might appear in logs while proxying; the bug had appeared in 1.3.9. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_spdy_module was used. *) Bugfix: proxied WebSocket connections might hang right after handshake if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. *) Bugfix: a timeout might occur while reading client request body in an SSL connection using chunked transfer encoding. *) Bugfix: memory leak in nginx/Windows.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-258
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
nginx-1.4.7-3.9.1 nginx-debuginfo-1.4.7-3.9.1 nginx-debugsource-1.4.7-3.9.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0133.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/869076