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Debian: DSA-4514-1 Critical: Varnish Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2019
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Varnish security vulnerability related to malformed HTTP requests addressed in Debian patch DSA-4514-1.
Alf-Andre Walla discovered a remotely triggerable assert in the Varnish web accelerator; sending a malformed HTTP request could result in denial of service

Summary

Alf-Andre Walla discovered a remotely triggerable assert in the Varnish
web accelerator; sending a malformed HTTP request could result in denial
of service.

The oldstable distribution (stretch) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 6.1.1-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your varnish packages.

For the detailed security status of varnish please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/varnish

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-2019-15892

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