Out-of-Bounds Affecting nginx package, versions [,0.5.38)[0.6.0,0.6.39)[0.7.0,0.7.62)[0.8.0,0.8.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINX-2333626
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2009

CVE-2009-3896  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx to version 0.5.38, 0.6.39, 0.7.62, 0.8.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds src/http/ngx_http_parse.c in nginx (aka Engine X) 0.1.0 through 0.4.14, 0.5.x before 0.5.38, 0.6.x before 0.6.39, 0.7.x before 0.7.62, and 0.8.x before 0.8.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a long URI.

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