Re: nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-2028)

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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:44:36AM -0700, Andrew Alexeev wrote:
> Greg MacManus, of iSIGHT Partners Labs, found a security problem
> in several recent versions of nginx.  A stack-based buffer
> overflow might occur in a worker process while handling a
> specially crafted request, potentially resulting in arbitrary code
> execution (CVE-2013-2028).

A recent blog post on the topic:

"Analysis of nginx 1.3.9/1.4.0 stack buffer overflow and x64
exploitation (CVE-2013-2028)"

http://www.vnsecurity.net/2013/05/analysis-of-nginx-cve-2013-2028/

Alexander