PT-2009-6118 · Nginx · Nginx

Josh Bressers · Published 2009-11-24 · Updated 2021-11-10 · CVE-2009-3896

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nginx versions 0.1.0 through 0.4.14 nginx versions 0.5.x before 0.5.38 nginx versions 0.6.x before 0.6.39 nginx versions 0.7.x before 0.7.62 nginx versions 0.8.x before 0.8.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash, via a long URI.

Recommendations For versions 0.1.0 through 0.4.14, update to a version after 0.4.14. For versions 0.5.x before 0.5.38, update to version 0.5.38 or later. For versions 0.6.x before 0.6.39, update to version 0.6.39 or later. For versions 0.7.x before 0.7.62, update to version 0.7.62 or later. For versions 0.8.x before 0.8.14, update to version 0.8.14 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3896

DSA-1920-1

Affected Products

Nginx

References · 22

• 🔥 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552035 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/36839 · Exploit
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/20/6 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3896 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3896 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1920 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/10 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/20/1 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539565 · Patch
• http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.null.pointer.txt · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3896 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00428.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00442.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3896 · Vendor Advisory