nginx 1.3.10 *) Change: domain names specified in configuration file are now resolved to IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 ones. *) Change: now if the "include" directive with mask is used on Unix systems, included files are sorted in alphabetical order. *) Change: the "add_header" directive adds headers to 201 responses. *) Feature: the "geo" directive now supports IPv6 addresses in CIDR notation. *) Feature: the "flush" and "gzip" parameters of the "access_log" directive. *) Feature: variables support in the "auth_basic" directive. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built with the ngx_http_perl_module in some cases. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the ngx_http_xslt_module was used. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on MacOSX in some cases. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive with high rates might result in truncated responses on 32-bit platforms. Thanks to Alexey Antropov. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the "if" directive was used. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: a "100 Continue" response was issued with "413 Request Entity Too Large" responses. *) Bugfix: the "image_filter", "image_filter_jpeg_quality" and "image_filter_sharpen" directives might be inherited incorrectly. Thanks to Ian Babrou. *) Bugfix: "crypt_r() failed" errors might appear if the "auth_basic" directive was used on Linux. *) Bugfix: in backup servers handling. Thanks to Thomas Chen. *) Bugfix: proxied HEAD requests might return incorrect response if the "gzip" directive was used.

--- a/src/http/ngx_http_variables.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_variables.c
@@ -330,6 +330,12 @@ ngx_http_add_variable(ngx_conf_t *cf, ng
     ngx_http_variable_t        *v;
     ngx_http_core_main_conf_t  *cmcf;
 
+    if (name->len == 0) {
+        ngx_conf_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, cf, 0,
+                           "invalid variable name \"$\"");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     cmcf = ngx_http_conf_get_module_main_conf(cf, ngx_http_core_module);
 
     key = cmcf->variables_keys->keys.elts;
@@ -393,6 +399,12 @@ ngx_http_get_variable_index(ngx_conf_t *
     ngx_http_variable_t        *v;
     ngx_http_core_main_conf_t  *cmcf;
 
+    if (name->len == 0) {
+        ngx_conf_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, cf, 0,
+                           "invalid variable name \"$\"");
+        return NGX_ERROR;
+    }
+
     cmcf = ngx_http_conf_get_module_main_conf(cf, ngx_http_core_module);
 
     v = cmcf->variables.elts;