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USN-2351-1: nginx vulnerability

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USN-2351-1: nginx vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/22/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/24/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

nginx 0.5.6 through 1.7.4, when using the same shared ssl_session_cache or ssl_session_ticket_key for multiple servers, can reuse a cached SSL session for an unrelated context, which allows remote attackers with certain privileges to conduct "virtual host confusion" attacks.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-core
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-extras
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-full
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-light
  • ubuntu-upgrade-nginx-naxsi

References

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