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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4281
2011-08-30 20:13:05
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Name : nginx
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 0.8.55
Release : 1.el5
URL :
http://nginx.net/
Summary : Robust, small and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server
Description :
Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3
proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
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Update Information:
Update nginx to be a safe version of nginx with respect to an exploit detailed here
https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/08/possible-arbitrary-code-execution-with...
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #717078 - nginx: possible arbitrary code execution with null bytes in URI
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717078
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update nginx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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