DSA-3029-1 nginx -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3029-1 nginx -- security update

Date Reported:

20 Sep 2014

Affected Packages:

nginx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 761940.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3616.

More information:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.