CVE-2015-8852

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    CVE-2015-8852

    Published: 25 Apr 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Varnish 3.x before 3.0.7, when used in certain stacked installations, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a header line terminated by a \r (carriage return) character in conjunction with multiple Content-Length headers in an HTTP request.

    References: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3553, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-10, https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-announce/2015-March/000701.html, https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/29870c8fe95e4e8a672f6f28c5fbe692bea09e9c, https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/85e8468bec9416bd7e16b0d80cb820ecd2b330c3, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00064.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/16/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/7

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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