DSA-3301-1 haproxy -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3301-1 haproxy -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Jul 2015

Affected Packages:

haproxy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3281.

More information:

Charlie Smurthwaite of aTech Media discovered a flaw in HAProxy, a fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy, when HTTP pipelining is used. A client can take advantage of this flaw to cause data corruption and retrieve uninitialized memory contents that exhibit data from a past request or session.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.8-3+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your haproxy packages.