SB2013112016 - Fedora EPEL 6 update for varnish
Published: November 20, 2013 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013112016
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4484)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.