CVE-2009-3896 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552035 http://marc.info/?l=nginx&m=125692080328141&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/48577 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nginx/nginx_0.4.13-2+etch3.diff.gz http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.null.pointer.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1920 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/20/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/20/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36839 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539565 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00428.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00442.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00449.html