Important: rh-haproxy18-haproxy security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-haproxy18-haproxy security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for rh-haproxy18-haproxy is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high availability environments.

Security Fix(es):

• haproxy: Mishandling of priority flag in short HEADERS frame by HTTP/2 decoder allows for crash (CVE-2018-20615)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1663060 - CVE-2018-20615 haproxy: Mishandling of priority flag in short HEADERS frame by HTTP/2 decoder allows for crash

CVEs

• CVE-2018-20615

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important