Debian DLA-2680-1 : nginx security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 150336

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Jamie Landeg-Jones and Manfred Paul discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in NGINX, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server.

NGINX has a buffer overflow for years that exceed four digits, as demonstrated by a file with a modification date in 1969 that causes an integer overflow (or a false modification date far in the future), when encountered by the autoindex module.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.3-1+deb9u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

For the detailed security status of nginx please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/nginx

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00009.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/nginx

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nginx

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 150336

File Name: debian_DLA-2680.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2021

Updated: 1/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-20005

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-echo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-geoip, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-image-filter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-lua, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-ndk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-mail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-nchan, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnginx-mod-stream, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-extras, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-full, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nginx-light, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-20005