FreeBSD : Varnish -- Denial of service vulnerability (88a77ad8-77b1-11e7-b5af-a4badb2f4699)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102138

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

phk reports :

A wrong if statement in the varnishd source code means that particular invalid requests from the client can trigger an assert.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00001.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1102b4d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102138

File Name: freebsd_pkg_88a77ad877b111e7b5afa4badb2f4699.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Published: 8/3/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:varnish4, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:varnish5, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2017