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Fedora 26 : varnish (2017-8f4fba5afa)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102485

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release. This is a security release with a fix for CVE-2017-12425, a crash bug that might be used in a denial of service attack. Details from the upstream project are found here :

http://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00001.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected varnish package.

See Also

http://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00001.html

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8f4fba5afa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102485

File Name: fedora_2017-8f4fba5afa.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:varnish, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12425