Summary
The remote host is missing an update to nginx
announced via advisory DSA 1884-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201884-1
Insight
Chris Ries discovered that nginx, a high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, is vulnerable to a buffer underflow when processing certain HTTP requests. An attacker can use this to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the worker process (www-data on Debian) or possibly perform denial of service attacks by repeatedly crashing worker processes via a specially crafted URL in an HTTP request.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.13-2+etch2.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.32-3+lenny2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.61-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2629 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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