cPanel, L.L.C. has released an update for EasyApache 4!  Take a look at some highlights below, and then join us on the cPanel Community Forums, Discord, or Reddit to talk about this update and much more. If you have additional questions, feel free to reach out on one of our social channels.

• ea-nginx
  • EA-12337: Update ea-nginx from v1.26.1 to v1.26.2
  • – *) Security: processing of a specially crafted mp4 file by the ngx_http_mp4_module might cause a worker process crash (CVE-2024-7347).
    Thanks to Nils Bars.

• ea-nginx-headers-more
• ea-nginx-njs
• ea-nginx-passenger
• ea-nginx-echo
• ea-modsec30-connector-nginx
  • EA-12337: Build against ea-nginx version v1.26.2

• ea-liblsapi
• ea-apache24-mod_lsapi
  • ZC-11807: Change from posix to pthreads locking for performance boost

• ea-cpanel-tools
  • ZC-4769: Update manifest for ea-apache24-mod-maxminddb

• ea-apache24-mod-maxminddb
  • ZC-4789: Initial Release (experimental repo / RHEL8 Only)

SUMMARY

cPanel, L.L.C. has updated packages for EasyApache 4 with NGINX version 1.26.2. This release addresses vulnerabilities related to CVE-2024-7347. We strongly encourage all NGINX users to update to version 1.26.2.

AFFECTED VERSIONS
All versions of NGINX through version 1.26.1.

SECURITY RATING
The National Vulnerability Database (NIST) has given the following severity ratings to these CVEs:

CVE-2024-7347 – MEDIUM
NGINX 1.26.2
Fixed vulnerability related to CVE-2024-7347.

SOLUTION
cPanel, L.L.C. has released updated packages for EasyApache 4 on August 21, 2024, with NGINX version 1.26.2. Unless you have enabled automatic package updates in your cron, update your system with either your package manager or WHM’s Run System Update interface.

REFERENCES
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7347
https://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.26

Information about all releases this year can be found in the 2024 EasyApache 4 Changelog and the EasyApache 4 Release Notes

GPG signed copy of this announcement:

https://news.cpanel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/EA4-2024-8-21-CVE.signed-1.txt