nginx versions prior to 1.0.14 stable and 1.1.7 development suffer from an information leak vulnerability when receiving a malformed HTTP response.
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Hello,
The nginx team has released stable version 1.0.14, and development
version 1.1.17 of nginx web server, which include a fix for malformed
HTTP responses from upstream servers:
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4535/nginx
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4531/nginx
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4530/nginx
http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html
Without this fix contents of previously freed memory might be sent to
a client if an upstream server returned specially crafted response,
potentially resulting in sensitive information leak.
Patch which can be applied to the earlier versions of nginx is here:
http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txt
Thanks to Matthew Daley for spotting this one.
-- nginx team