[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 4 Update: nginx-0.8.55-2.el4

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4278
2011-08-30 20:12:57
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Name        : nginx
Product     : Fedora EPEL 4
Version     : 0.8.55
Release     : 2.el4
URL         : http://nginx.net/
Summary     : Robust, small and high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server
Description :
Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3
proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

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Update Information:

Update nginx to be a safe version of nginx with respect to an exploit detailed here https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/08/possible-arbitrary-code-execution-with-null-bytes-php-and-old-versions-of-nginx/
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #717078 - nginx: possible arbitrary code execution with null bytes in URI
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717078
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update nginx' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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