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Debian: DSA-4034-1 Critical: Varnish Memory Disclosure and DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
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A recent security bulletin for Debian highlights critical vulnerabilities in Varnish, including significant memory leak and denial of service threats. Updating is strongly recommended.
'shamger' and Carlo Cannas discovered that a programming error in Varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator, may result in disclosure of memory contents or deni...

Summary

See https://vinyl-cache.org/security/VSV00002.html for details.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.0-7+deb9u2.

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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Package: varnish
CVE ID: CVE-2017-8807

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