Portaudit claims nginx 1.2.x vulnerable

[Xin Li]

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Hi, Michael,

On 05/16/13 15:04, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that portaudit considers www/nginx >=1.2.0,1
> <1.4.1,1 to be affected by CVE-2013-2028, creating noise and
> preventing installation:
> 
> http://portaudit.freebsd.org/efaa4071-b700-11e2-b1b9-f0def16c5c1b.html
>
>  According to the announcement on the nginx mailing list, only
> versions of nginx >= 1.3.9 < 1.4.1,1 should be affected:
> 
> http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000112.html 
> and the fix in nginx trac 
> http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/5189/nginx
> 
> I just checked the source of 1.2.8 (the current version in ports, 
> www/nginx) and it doesn't even contain the affected functionality,
> nor the affected function implementing it (ngx_http_parse_chunked).
> This is in line with additional media and bugtracker coverage:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960605 
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/07/3 
> http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/05/cve-2013-2028-buffer-overflow.html
>
> 
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/NGINX-patches-major-security-flaw-1858438.html
> 
> Long story short: I would kindly ask you to correct the entry in
> the portaudit database to match only affected versions of nginx.

I have took a look at these and found this:

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000114.html

I'll update the vuxml entry to include these information.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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