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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-36740): Varnish Cache vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-36740): Varnish Cache vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/14/2021
Created
06/11/2022
Added
06/09/2022
Modified
11/07/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvarnishapi1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvarnishapi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-varnish

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