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CVE-2017-12425 Detail

Description

An issue was discovered in Varnish HTTP Cache 4.0.1 through 4.0.4, 4.1.0 through 4.1.7, 5.0.0, and 5.1.0 through 5.1.2. A wrong if statement in the varnishd source code means that particular invalid requests from the client can trigger an assert, related to an Integer Overflow. This causes the varnishd worker process to abort and restart, losing the cached contents in the process. An attacker can therefore crash the varnishd worker process on demand and effectively keep it from serving content - a Denial-of-Service attack. The specific source-code filename containing the incorrect statement varies across releases.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3924 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477222 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051917 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/2379 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00186.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00001.html#vsv00001 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-12425
NVD Published Date:
08/04/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
MITRE