Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package haproxy.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published11 Sept 2025
- disclosed12 Dec 2018
Introduced: 12 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20103 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream haproxy.src package and not the haproxy.src package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658876
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20103
- http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=commit;h=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25
- http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106280
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0326
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00045.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3858-1/