*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***

Public security bug reported:

I am reporting this bug so there's a bug to track this in within
Launchpad.  If/when a patch is approved upstream, this bug can be used
as a reference point in the changelog when SRU-ing the fix into older
releases.

Confirmed as Debian Bug 697940.
Confirmed as CVE-2011-4968.

This has already been added to the Ubuntu Security Team Tracker at
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4968.html

Information as follows comes from the Debian Bug:
"When nginx is configured as a reverse proxy with an https origin server, it is 
vulnerable to a MITM attack, because it does not verify the certificate of the 
origin server.

This is upstream's bug https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/13, and also
CVE-2011-4968.

It appears to have been known for over a year, but the proposed patches
to resolve the problem appear to have never made it through the patch
review process in upstream."

** Affects: nginx (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-
bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-4968

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