Nginx [nginx-announce] nginx-1.5.11

Changes with nginx 1.5.11 04 Mar 2014

*) Security: memory corruption might occur in a worker process on 32-bit
platforms while handling a specially crafted request by
ngx_http_spdy_module, potentially resulting in arbitrary code
execution (CVE-2014-0088); the bug had appeared in 1.5.10.
Thanks to Lucas Molas, researcher at Programa STIC, Fundación Dr.
Manuel Sadosky, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

*) Feature: the $ssl_session_reused variable.

*) Bugfix: the "client_max_body_size" directive might not work when
reading a request body using chunked transfer encoding; the bug had
appeared in 1.3.9.
Thanks to Lucas Molas.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process when
proxying WebSocket connections.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
ngx_http_spdy_module was used on 32-bit platforms; the bug had
appeared in 1.5.10.

*) Bugfix: the $upstream_status variable might contain wrong data if the
"proxy_cache_use_stale" or "proxy_cache_revalidate" directives were
used.
Thanks to Piotr Sikora.

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*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if
errors with code 400 were redirected to a named location using the
"error_page" directive.

*) Bugfix: nginx/Windows could not be built with Visual Studio 2013.


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