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Debian: CVE-2015-8852: varnish -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2015-8852: varnish -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/22/2016
Modified
03/23/2020

Description

Varnish 3.x before 3.0.7, when used in certain stacked installations, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a header line terminated by a \r (carriage return) character in conjunction with multiple Content-Length headers in an HTTP request.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-varnish

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