Secunia Security Advisory - Positive Research has reported a vulnerability in nginx, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
nginx "location" Restricted Resource Access Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50912
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-10-15
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DESCRIPTION:
Positive Research has reported a vulnerability in nginx, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP
requests for resources defined via the "location" directive and can
be exploited to access restricted resources via specially crafted
HTTP requests containing NTFS extended attributes.
The vulnerability is reported in Windows versions prior to 1.2.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Vladimir Kochetkov, Positive Research.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
nginx:
http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2012/000086.html
Positive Research:
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-06
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/06/vulnerability-in-nginx-eliminated.html
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