haproxy vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-14645  

HAProxy could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted request.

It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

2 October 2018

haproxy vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

HAProxy could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted request.

Software Description

  • haproxy - fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

Details

It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
haproxy - 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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