Nginx

Nginx file extension whitelisting

2011-06-23 Felix Ehlers

Nginx is a great webserver that is flexible, feature rich and fairly well documented. But have you ever wanted to whitelist files upon their extensions and did not find a solution in the documentation reference? The bad answer is you will not find it.

The good answer is: It is possible.

Nginx 1.0 released

2011-04-13 Felix Ehlers

After nine years of development nginx reaches version 1.0.0 which is now the latest stable version and ready for production. Version 0.8.54 is now the newest legacy stable version.

nginx buffer underflow reported by Secunia

2009-09-15 Felix Ehlers

Secunia reports in advisory SA3675 about a buffer underflow vulnerability in the function ngx_http_parse_complex_uri() of the nginx webserver and rates it as highly critical. Impacts may be a DoS attack or remote system access. Changelogs were published for nginx 0.7.62, nginx 0.6.39 and nginx 0.5.38. We highly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of nginx.