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Ubuntu: USN-3858-1 (CVE-2018-20103): HAProxy vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3858-1 (CVE-2018-20103): HAProxy vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/12/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/23/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-haproxy

References

  • USN-3858-1
  • CVE-2018-20103

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