Executive Summary

Summary
Title nginx vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2351-1 First vendor Publication 2014-09-22
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-09-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

nginx could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description: - nginx: small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that nginx incorrectly reused cached SSL sessions. An attacker could possibly use this issue in certain configurations to obtain access to information from a different virtual host.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
nginx-core 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-extras 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-full 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-light 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1
nginx-naxsi 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2351-1
CVE-2014-3616

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2351-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-613 Insufficient Session Expiration

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26331
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26331
Title: DSA-3029-1 nginx - security update
Description: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3029-1
CVE-2014-3616
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): nginx
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26801
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26801
Title: USN-2351-1 -- nginx vulnerability
Description: nginx could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2351-1
CVE-2014-3616
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Product(s): nginx
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 437
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-094.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-55.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-09 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201502-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-13 Name : The remote web server is affected by an SSL session handling vulnerability.
File : nginx_1_7_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-421.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-11370.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-11415.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-11251.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2351-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3029.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-17 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_77b784bb3dc611e4b191f0def16c5c1b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-12-08 21:33:02
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-08 17:27:38
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-24 13:28:17
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-22 21:22:31
  • First insertion