Security Bulletin: Aspera Applications are affected by a Nginx vulnerability

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Security Bulletin: Aspera Applications are affected by a Nginx vulnerability

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Summary

Aspera Applications has addressed the following vulnerability: Nginx could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by an integer overflow in nginx range filter mode.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2017-7529 **DESCRIPTION:*Nginx could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by an integer overflow in nginx range filter module. By sending specially-crafted requet a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/128674&gt;for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Aspera Applications

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Affected Versions

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Shares

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1.9.10 and prior

Proxy

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1.4.1 and prior

Files

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0.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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Remediation / First Fix

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Shares

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1.9.11 or higher

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<http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/downloads/34&gt;

Proxy

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1.4.2 or higher

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ETA - 1/15/2018

Files

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0.0.0

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Fixed as of 9/7/2017

Workarounds and Mitigations

To mitigate the issue in an affected version add the following setting in the nginx configuration file. Reference <http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2017/000200.html&gt; for more information.

max_ranges 1;

References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide

On-line Calculator v3

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

29 September 2017: Original version published

_*_The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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