RHSA-2021:2278 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-nginx116-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.

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: Off-by-one in ngx_resolver_copy() when labels are followed by a pointer to a root domain name (CVE-2021-23017)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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-nginx116-nginx service must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1963121 - CVE-2021-23017 nginx: Off-by-one in ngx_resolver_copy() when labels are followed by a pointer to a root domain name

CVEs

• CVE-2021-23017

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important