[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1053770: nginx: CVE-2023-44487

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: nginx
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for nginx.

CVE-2023-44487[0]:
| The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource
| consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams
| quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2023-October/S36Q5HBXR7CAIMPLLPRSSSYR4PCMWILK.html
https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/6ceef192e7af1c507826ac38a2d43f08bf265fb9


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-44487
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.