Bug 2457698 (CVE-2026-40395) - CVE-2026-40395 Varnish Enterprise: Varnish Enterprise: Denial of Service via workspace overflow
Summary: CVE-2026-40395 Varnish Enterprise: Varnish Enterprise: Denial of Service via ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-40395
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability-draft
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-12 20:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-04 14:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-12 20:01:37 UTC
Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for shared VCL. The headerplus.write_req0() function from vmod_headerplus updates the underlying req0, which is normally the original read-only request from which req is derived (readable and writable from VCL). This is useful in the active VCL, after amending req, to prepare a refined req0 before switching to a different VCL with the return (vcl(<label>)) action. This is for example how the Varnish Controller operates shared VCL deployments. If the amended req contained too many header fields for req0, this would have resulted in a workspace overflow that would in turn trigger a panic and crash the Varnish Enterprise server. This could be used as a Denial of Service attack vector by malicious clients.


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