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USN-2991-1 nginx vulnerability

USN-2991-1 nginx vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Nginx, Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • BOSH-release versions prior to 255.11

Description

It was discovered that nginx incorrectly handled saving client request bodies to temporary files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause nginx to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • For BOSH-only deployments, upgrade BOSH-release to version 255.11

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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