Source: nginx Version: 1.10.0-1 Severity: important Tags: security
A problem was identified in nginx code responsible for saving client request body to a temporary file. A specially crafted request might result in worker process crash due to a NULL pointer dereference while writing client request body to a temporary file (CVE-2016-4450). The problem affects nginx 1.3.9 - 1.11.0. The problem is fixed in nginx 1.11.1, 1.10.1. Patch for nginx 1.9.13 - 1.11.0 can be found here: http://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write.txt Patch for older nginx versions (1.3.9 - 1.9.12): http://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write2.txt Upstream reference: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2016/000179.html?_ga=1.6487538.1331156843.1434132798