Debian: DSA-3924-1: varnish security update

Date 02 Aug 2017

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator. Specially crafted HTTP requests can cause the Varnish daemon to assert and restart, clearing the cache in the process.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3924-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
August 02, 2017                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : varnish
CVE ID         : not yet assigned
Debian Bug     : 870467

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Varnish, a state of
the art, high-performance web accelerator. Specially crafted HTTP
requests can cause the Varnish daemon to assert and restart, clearing
the cache in the process.

See https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00001.html for details.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 4.0.2-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.0-7+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your varnish packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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