Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Varnish is a web application accelerator.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Varnish. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted GET request. Furthermore a local attacker could obtain sensitive information through insecure permissions on logfiles.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Varnish users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/varnish-3.0.5"