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FreeBSD : varnish -- Varnish HTTP Request Parsing Denial of Service (bcee3989-d106-4f60-948f-835375634710)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35696

Synopsis

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

Description

SecurityFocus reports :

Varnish is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to handle certain HTTP requests.

Successfully exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to crash the affected application denying further service to legitimate users.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/WikiStart

http://www.nessus.org/u?07cad564

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35696

File Name: freebsd_pkg_bcee3989d1064f60948f835375634710.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 2/17/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:varnish, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2008

Reference Information

BID: 33712

Secunia: 33852