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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-421
Advisory Release Date: 2014-10-01 16:28 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-10-01 18:52 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2014-3616
Issue Overview:
A virtual host confusion issue was found in nginx, allowing HTTPS connections for one origin to be redirected to the virtual host of a different origin. This leads to a variety of issues, such as cookie theft and session hijacking. It could be triggered from a cross-site scripting flaw, tricking a user into visiting a malicious URL, and so on.
Affected Packages:
nginx
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nginx to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
nginx-1.6.2-1.22.amzn1.i686
nginx-debuginfo-1.6.2-1.22.amzn1.i686
src:
nginx-1.6.2-1.22.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nginx-1.6.2-1.22.amzn1.x86_64
nginx-debuginfo-1.6.2-1.22.amzn1.x86_64