{"id":"MGASA-2017-0253","summary":"Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerability","details":"A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Varnish, a state of\nthe art, high-performance web accelerator. Specially crafted HTTP\nrequests can cause the Varnish daemon to assert and restart, clearing\nthe cache in the process (CVE-2017-12425).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:43.002218465Z","published":"2017-08-09T20:01:32Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-12425"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0253.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21449"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12425"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3924"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"varnish","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/varnish?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.0.0-3.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0253.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}