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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-40225: Moderate: haproxy security update (ALSA-2024-1142)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2023
Added
Mar 8, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

HAProxy through 2.0.32, 2.1.x and 2.2.x through 2.2.30, 2.3.x and 2.4.x through 2.4.23, 2.5.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.15, 2.7.x before 2.7.10, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 forwards empty Content-Length headers, violating RFC 9110 section 8.6. In uncommon cases, an HTTP/1 server behind HAProxy may interpret the payload as an extra request.

Solution

alma-upgrade-haproxy
Title
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