USN-4824-1: Varnish vulnerability

Publication date

15 March 2021

Overview

Varnish could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that Varnish incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	varnish – 4.1.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm1
16.04 xenial	libvarnishapi1 – 4.1.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm1

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