Debian DLA-2920-1 : varnish - LTS security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158035

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2920 advisory.

- In Varnish Cache before 6.6.2 and 7.x before 7.0.2, Varnish Cache 6.0 LTS before 6.0.10, and and Varnish Enterprise (Cache Plus) 4.1.x before 4.1.11r6 and 6.0.x before 6.0.9r4, request smuggling can occur for HTTP/1 connections. (CVE-2022-23959)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the varnish packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.0-7+deb9u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158035

File Name: debian_DLA-2920.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2022

Updated: 2/14/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23959

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:varnish, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvarnishapi-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvarnishapi1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:varnish-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23959

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