Description
Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for certain amounts of prefetched data. The setup of an HTTP/2 session starts with a speculative HTTP/1 transport, and upon upgrading to h2 the HTTP/1 request is repurposed as stream zero. During the upgrade, a buffer allocation is made to reserve space to send frames to the client. This allocation would split the original workspace, and depending on the amount of prefetched data, the next fetch could perform a pipelining operation that would run out of workspace.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| varnish-software | Varnish Cache | 9.0.0 – < 9.0.1 | 9.0.1 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | varnish | No fix yet | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-1061 Varnish HTTP Cache: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Apr 12, 2026