Varnish varnish-modules before 0.17.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) in some configurations. This does not affect organizations that only install the Varnish Cache product; however, it is common to install both Varnish Cache and varnish-modules. Specifically, an assertion failure or NULL pointer dereference can be triggered in Varnish Cache through the varnish-modules header.append() and header.copy() functions. For some Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) files, this gives remote clients an opportunity to cause a Varnish Cache restart. A restart reduces overall availability and performance due to an increased number of cache misses, and may cause higher load on backend servers.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00006.html | Vendor Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OPFBRQUJNWHCB3GQHSSAPRLQU6Q6PY43/ | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2021-03-16 08:15
Updated : 2021-03-26 13:48
NVD link : CVE-2021-28543
Mitre link : CVE-2021-28543
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CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Products Affected
varnish-cache
- varnish-modules
- varnish-modules_klarlack
fedoraproject
- fedora