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Fedora 19 : nginx-1.4.1-1.fc19 (2013-7560)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66387

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream release 1.4.1 which fixes :

 - CVE-2013-2028: Stack-based buffer overflow when handling certain chunked transfer encoding requests

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nginx package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960605

http://www.nessus.org/u?fd1860f2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66387

File Name: fedora_2013-7560.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2013

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Nginx HTTP Server 1.3.9-1.4.0 Chunked Encoding Stack Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2028

BID: 59699

FEDORA: 2013-7560