-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-8575fbfe90 2017-11-28 02:48:23.155289 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : varnish Product : Fedora 25 Version : 5.0.0 Release : 5.fc25 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/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1513523 - CVE-2017-8807 varnish: Data leak - ���-sfile��� Stevedore transient objects https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513523 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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