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GLSA-201607-10 : Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 92480

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201607-10 (Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Varnish fails to properly validate input from HTTP headers, and does not deny requests with multiple Content-Length headers.
 Impact :

 Remote attackers could conduct an HTTP response splitting attack, which may further enable them to conduct Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cache Poisoning, Defacement, and Page Hijacking.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Varnish users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-servers/varnish-3.0.7'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-10

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92480

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201607-10.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Published: 7/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:P/A:N

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:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:varnish, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8852

GLSA: 201607-10