CVE-2015-8852 Other in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8852?

CVE-2015-8852 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8852?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8852?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-8852 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8852 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8852, DSA-3553-1, GHSA-rgw4-jfff-qx3m, MGASA-2016-0150, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8852.