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Vinyl/Varnish -- VCL string methods workspace overflow

Affected packages
vinyl09 < 9.0.2
6.3.0 <= varnish7 <= 8.0.2

Details

VuXML ID a2fda5d7-b2fb-11f1-9800-641c67a117d8
Discovery 2026-09-16
Entry 2026-09-18

Vinyl Development Team reports:

A workspace buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the .upper() and .lower() string type methods of VCL.

This can be used as a remote denial of service (DoS) vector to make the child process segfault or assert, and then restart.

Effectively exploiting this vulnerability requires prior knowledge about the VCL in use and the ability to craft a request that contains a string that is long enough to fill the remaining workspace at the call site while staying under the different request size limits (http_req_size, http_req_hdr_len, ..etc).

References

URL https://vinyl-cache.org/security/VSV00020.html