Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3029-1 nginx -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 20 Sep 2014
- Affected Packages:
- nginx
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 761940.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3616. - More information:
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Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-2.2+wheezy3.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nginx packages.