Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-0836: ELSA-2023-6496: haproxy security and bug fix update (MODERATE)

An information leak vulnerability was discovered in HAProxy 2.1, 2.2 before 2.2.27, 2.3, 2.4 before 2.4.21, 2.5 before 2.5.11, 2.6 before 2.6.8, 2.7 before 2.7.1. There are 5 bytes left uninitialized in the connection buffer when encoding the FCGI_BEGIN_REQUEST record. Sensitive data may be disclosed to configured FastCGI backends in an unexpected way.
A flaw was found in HAProxy, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by improper initialization when encoding the FCGI_BEGIN_REQUEST record. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.