Resource Exhaustion Affecting rh-haproxy18-haproxy package, versions <0:1.8.17-1.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHHAPROXY18HAPROXY-4791480
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed12 Dec 2018

Introduced: 12 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20103  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rh-haproxy18-haproxy to version 0:1.8.17-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:1436.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-haproxy18-haproxy package and not the rh-haproxy18-haproxy package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.