Advisories » MGASA-2021-0387

Updated varnish packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Jul 2021
Modification date: 28 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-36740

Description

Varnish Cache, with HTTP/2 enabled, allows request smuggling and VCL
authorization bypass via a large Content-Length header for a POST request.
This affects Varnish Enterprise 6.0.x before 6.0.8r3, and Varnish Cache 5.x
and 6.x before 6.5.2, 6.6.x before 6.6.1, and 6.0 LTS before 6.0.8
(CVE-2021-36740).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29290
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/THV2DQA2GS65HUCKK4KSD2XLN3AAQ2V5/
• https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00007.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36740

SRPMS

8/core

• varnish-6.5.1-1.1.mga8