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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-16T14:43:04

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:47:32.984Z

Reserved: 2021-03-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-28543

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-16T15:15:13.843

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:32:09.663

Link: CVE-2021-28543

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-03-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-28543 - Bugzilla