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USN-7014-1: nginx vulnerability

16 September 2024

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

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

It was discovered that the nginx ngx_http_mp4 module incorrectly handled
certain malformed mp4 files. In environments where the mp4 directive is in
use, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause nginx to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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References

Related notices

  • USN-7014-2: libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext, nginx-common, libnginx-mod-http-lua, nginx-extras, libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam, nginx-full, libnginx-mod-rtmp, libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex, libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge, libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter, nginx-doc, nginx, nginx-light, libnginx-mod-http-echo, libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair, nginx-core, libnginx-mod-mail, libnginx-mod-http-geoip, libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter, libnginx-mod-http-image-filter, libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter, libnginx-mod-http-ndk, libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress, libnginx-mod-http-perl, libnginx-mod-stream, libnginx-mod-nchan