Bug 293786 (CVE-2009-3896)

Summary:	<www-servers/nginx-0.7.64: NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2009-3896)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hollow, voxus
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.null.pointer.txt
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	293785
Bug Blocks:

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-20 01:16:28 UTC

"A patch to fix a null pointer dereference vulnerability in 0.1.0-0.8.13.
The patch is not required for versions 0.8.14+, 0.7.62+, 0.6.39+, 0.5.38+. "

Please bump or provide an patched ebuild.

Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-11-26 08:26:09 UTC

CVE-2009-3896 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3896):
  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.

Comment 2 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-08 14:55:32 UTC

I've bumped to 0.7.64 and 0.8.29. Let me know if anyone really wants an older branch.

Comment 3 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-04 11:45:29 UTC

0.7.64 is stable on all platforms where any version is stable, resolving.

Comment 4 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2010-03-04 11:56:04 UTC

reopening.

Comment 5 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-17 15:20:25 UTC

Adding to existing GLSA request.

Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2012-03-28 10:59:38 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201203-22 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).