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Unscored USN-8398-2 0 CVEs

nginx regression

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 9, 2026

Summary

USN-8398-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. The update introduced a
regression causing nginx to crash when being used with external modules.
This update reverts the fix for CVE-2026-49975 pending further
investigation.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that nginx incorrectly handled certain cookie headers in
the HTTP/2 implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause nginx to consume excessive resources, resulting in a denial of
service.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS nginx 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.14
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS nginx 1.24.0-2ubuntu7.11
Ubuntu · 25.10 nginx 1.28.0-6ubuntu1.6
Ubuntu · 26.04 LTS 26.04:LTS nginx 1.28.3-2ubuntu1.4

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/2155992