From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2009 - 17:40:03 CST

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TITLE:
Varnish Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33852

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33852/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Varnish 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13981/
Varnish 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21349/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Varnish, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when
processing HTTP requests. This can be exploited to cause a DoS via a
specially crafted HTTP request.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.0.1. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.1 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/WikiStart

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