USN-4967-1 fixed a vulnerability in nginx. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Luis Merino, Markus Vervier, and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that nginx incorrectly handled responses to the DNS resolver. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause nginx to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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