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Fedora 21 : varnish-4.0.3-3.fc21 (2015-4079)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82725

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a bug trigged by a bogus content-length header.
Under special circumstances, it could crash a varnishd subthread.

New upstream release. A bugfix release.

Highlights from the changelog :

 - 26 reported bugs fixed.

 - Replaced objects are now expired immediately, instead of kept around until expiry.

 - Memory usage on chunked backend responses is lower

Fore a detailed list of changes, please see the project's announcement at https://www.varnish-cache.org/content/varnish-cache-403

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected varnish package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200034

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c07a6d3

https://varnish-cache.org/content/varnish-cache-403

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82725

File Name: fedora_2015-4079.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:varnish, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-4079