Moderate: rh-nginx116-nginx security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-20372   CVE-2019-20372   CVE-2019-20372  

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-nginx116-nginx security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-nginx116-nginx is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

nginx is a web and proxy server supporting HTTP and other protocols, with a focus on high concurrency, performance, and low memory usage.

Security Fix(es):

  • nginx: HTTP request smuggling via error pages in http/ngx_http_special_response.c (CVE-2019-20372)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The rh-nginx116-nginx service must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1790277 - CVE-2019-20372 nginx: HTTP request smuggling via error pages in http/ngx_http_special_response.c

CVEs

References