Debian DSA-3553-1 : varnish - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 90686

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Synopsis

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

Description

Regis Leroy from Makina Corpus discovered that varnish, a caching HTTP reverse proxy, is vulnerable to HTTP smuggling issues, potentially resulting in cache poisoning or bypassing of access control policies.

Solution

Upgrade the varnish packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-2+deb7u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90686

File Name: debian_DSA-3553.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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, 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: 4/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8852

DSA: 3553

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