Debian DSA-2814-1 : varnish - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71277

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Synopsis

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

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was reported in varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator. With some configurations of varnish a remote attacker could mount a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

Solution

Upgrade the varnish packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.3-8+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-2+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71277

File Name: debian_DSA-2814.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/10/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:varnish, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4484

BID: 63451

DSA: 2814

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