Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered a weakness in the TLS/SSL protocol when using compression. This side channel attack, dubbed CRIME , allows eavesdroppers to gather information to recover the original plaintext in the protocol. This update to nginx disables SSL compression.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.67-3+squeeze3. For the testing distribution (wheezy), and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.16-1. We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.

Nginx (engine x) is a web server created by Igor Sysoev and kindly provided to the open-source community. This server can be used as standalone HTTP server and as a reverse proxy server before some Apache or another big server to reduce load to backend servers by many concurrent HTTP-sessions.

nginx on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2627.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25