Security issues with Nginx

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Hey all

Im new to Nginx and wanted to know if any of you familiar with any Known
security issues in Nginx (for example:
Nginx & PHP via FastCGI important security issue)

Thanks
Joe

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Hello!

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 03:43:17AM -0400, Joe M wrote:

Hey all

Im new to Nginx and wanted to know if any of you familiar with any Known
security issues in Nginx (for example:
Nginx & PHP via FastCGI important security issue)

This was discussed here once discovered[1], and the conclusion is:
it’s not a security issue in nginx, but rather a misconfiguration
of php.

Making sure you’ve configured it correctly (i.e. switched off
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0 in php.ini) is a good idea though.

[1] nginx 0day exploit for nginx + fastcgi PHP

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/en/donation.html

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OK, great

Any other security issues or misconfiguration I should know about?

Thanks
Joe

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