nginx vulnerabilities

15 August 2019

nginx vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

nginx could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description

• nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Details

Jonathan Looney discovered that nginx incorrectly handled the HTTP/2 implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

nginx-common - 1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1

nginx-core - 1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1

nginx-extras - 1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1

nginx-full - 1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1

nginx-light - 1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

nginx-common - 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4

nginx-core - 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4

nginx-extras - 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4

nginx-full - 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4

nginx-light - 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

nginx-common - 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

nginx-core - 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

nginx-extras - 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

nginx-full - 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

nginx-light - 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-9511
• CVE-2019-9513
• CVE-2019-9516