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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: rh-nginx18-nginx security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3652-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3652
Issue date: 2018-11-26
CVE Names: CVE-2018-16845
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1. Summary:
An update for rh-nginx18-nginx is now available for Red Hat Software
Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64
3. Description:
nginx is a web and proxy server supporting HTTP and other protocols, with a
focus on high concurrency, performance, and low memory usage.
Security Fix(es):
* nginx: Denial of service and memory disclosure via mp4 module
(CVE-2018-16845)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Nginx project for reporting this issue.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The rh-nginx18-nginx service must be restarted for this update to take
effect.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1644508 - CVE-2018-16845 nginx: Denial of service and memory disclosure via mp4 module
6. Package List:
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
rh-nginx18-nginx-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
rh-nginx18-nginx-debuginfo-1.8.1-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16845
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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