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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-5525b6cb5a
2017-11-27 23:57:42.622574
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Name : varnish
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 5.1.3
Release : 4.fc26
URL :
http://www.varnish-cache.org/
Summary : High-performance HTTP accelerator
Description :
This is Varnish Cache, a high-performance HTTP accelerator.
Varnish Cache stores web pages in memory so web servers don���t have to
create the same web page over and over again. Varnish Cache serves
pages much faster than any application server; giving the website a
significant speed up.
Documentation wiki and additional information about Varnish Cache is
available on:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2017-8807: This fixes a possible data leak in stevedore
transient objects in varnishd. Upstream reports: "It is not inconceiveable that
an attack can provoke this situation on vulnerable varnishd instances, where the
leaked memory contains confidential data and therefore we have classified this
as a security vulnerability."
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1513523 - CVE-2017-8807 varnish: Data leak - ���-sfile��� Stevedore transient
objects
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513523
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade varnish' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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