Fedora 18 : nginx-1.2.9-1.fc18 (2013-8182)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66577

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream release 1.2.9 which fixes :

- CVE-2013-2070 'denial of service or memory disclosure when using proxy_pass' fix build on platforms without gperftools Update to upstream release 1.4.0, which includes support for proxying of WebSocket connections, OCSP stapling, SPDY module, gunzip filter and more.
Build with '--with-debug' to enable optional debugging

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=962525

http://www.nessus.org/u?9ecea3de

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66577

File Name: fedora_2013-8182.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nginx, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2070

BID: 59824

FEDORA: 2013-8182