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Red Hat: CVE-2020-11653: CVE-2020-11653 varnish: remote clients may cause Varnish to assert and restart which could result in DoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 8, 2020
Added
Nov 5, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Varnish Cache before 6.0.6 LTS, 6.1.x and 6.2.x before 6.2.3, and 6.3.x before 6.3.2. It occurs when communication with a TLS termination proxy uses PROXY version 2. There can be an assertion failure and daemon restart, which causes a performance loss.

Solutions

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