DSA-4514-1 varnish -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4514-1 varnish -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Sep 2019

Affected Packages:

varnish

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-15892.

More information:

Alf-Andre Walla discovered a remotely triggerable assert in the Varnish web accelerator; sending a malformed HTTP request could result in denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (stretch) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 6.1.1-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your varnish packages.

For the detailed security status of varnish please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/varnish