RHSA-2021:2258HighCVSS 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-nginx118-nginx security update

Published
June 7, 2021
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2021-23017 — nginx: Off-by-one in ngx_resolver_copy() when labels are followed by a pointer to a root domain name

🎯 Affected products55

  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-debuginfo-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1:1.18.0-3.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-perl-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-perl-1:1.18.0-3.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7)
  • rh-nginx118-nginx-mod-http-perl-1:1.18.0-3.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The rh-nginx118-nginx service must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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