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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4034-1 varnish -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

varnish

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 881808.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8807.

More information:

'shamger' and Carlo Cannas discovered that a programming error in Varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator, may result in disclosure of memory contents or denial of service.

See https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00002.html for details.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.0-7+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your varnish packages.