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nginx: denial of service

Package(s):nginx CVE #(s):CVE-2009-3896
Created:December 7, 2009 Updated:December 9, 2009
Description:

From the CVE entry:

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.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-12750 2009-12-07
Fedora FEDORA-2009-12782 2009-12-07
Fedora FEDORA-2009-12775 2009-12-07
Gentoo 201203-22 2012-03-28

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