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Nginx Chunked Transfer Encoding Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Buffer overflow

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

10 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is running Nginx and is prone stack buffer overflow vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

A stack-based buffer overflow will occur in a worker process while handling certain chunked transfer encoding requests.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Nginx version 1.3.9 through 1.4.0

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Nginx version 1.5.0, 1.4.1 or later.

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