openSUSE Security Update: version update for nginx ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:1015-1 Rating: moderate References: #821184 Cross-References: CVE-2013-2070 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This version update for nginx to 1.2.9 includes a security fix and several bugfixes and feature enhancements. (bnc#821184) *) Security: contents of worker process memory might be sent to a client if HTTP backend returned specially crafted response (CVE-2013-2070); the bug had appeared in 1.1.4. - changes with 1.2.8: *) Bugfix: new sessions were not always stored if the "ssl_session_cache shared" directive was used and there was no free space in shared memory. *) Bugfix: responses might hang if subrequests were used and a DNS error happened during subrequest processing. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. *) Bugfix: in backend usage accounting. - changes with nginx 1.2.7 *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order. *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses. *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR notation. *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log" directive. *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive. *) Feature: the $pipe, $request_length, $time_iso8601, and $time_local variables can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive. *) Feature: IPv6 support in the ngx_http_geoip_module. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in some cases. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_xslt_module was used. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in truncated responses on 32-bit platforms. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "if" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity Too Large" responses. *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly. *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic" directive was used on Linux. *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling. *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the "gzip" directive was used. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred on start or during reconfiguration if the "keepalive" directive was specified more than once in a single upstream block. *) Bugfix: in the "proxy_method" directive. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if resolver was used with the poll method. *) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU during SSL handshake with a backend if the select, poll, or /dev/poll methods were used. *) Bugfix: the "[crit] SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" error. *) Bugfix: in the "fastcgi_keep_conn" directive. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-484 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64): nginx-1.2.9-3.4.1 nginx-debuginfo-1.2.9-3.4.1 nginx-debugsource-1.2.9-3.4.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2070.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/821184