openSUSE Security Update: Security update for varnish
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2221-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1149382
Cross-References: CVE-2019-15892
Affected Products:
openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1
openSUSE Backports SLE-15
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update for varnish fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

– CVE-2019-15892: Fixed a potential denial of service by sending crafted
HTTP/1 requests (boo#1149382).

Non-security issues fixed:

– Updated the package to release 6.2.1.
– Added a thread pool watchdog which will restart the worker process if
scheduling tasks onto worker threads appears stuck. The new parameter
“thread_pool_watchdog” configures it.
– Disabled error for clobbering, which caused bogus error in varnishtest.

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.0:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2221=1

– openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2221=1

Package List:

– openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libvarnishapi2-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1
libvarnishapi2-debuginfo-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1
varnish-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1
varnish-debuginfo-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1
varnish-debugsource-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1
varnish-devel-6.2.1-bp151.4.3.1

– openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libvarnishapi2-6.2.1-bp150.3.3.1
varnish-6.2.1-bp150.3.3.1
varnish-devel-6.2.1-bp150.3.3.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15892.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149382

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