5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-2942

Published: 27/05/2012 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 454
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in the trash buffer in the header capture functionality in HAProxy prior to 1.4.21, when global.tune.bufsize is set to a value greater than the default and header rewriting is enabled, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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HAProxy could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic ...
Debian Bug report logs - #674447 CVE-2012-2942 Package: haproxy; Maintainer for haproxy is Debian HAProxy Maintainers <haproxy@trackerdebianorg>; Source for haproxy is src:haproxy (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:09:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, ...
Debian Bug report logs - #704611 haproxy: CVE-2013-1912: crash on TCP content inspection rules Package: src:haproxy; Maintainer for src:haproxy is Debian HAProxy Maintainers <haproxy@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:54:02 UTC Severity: important Tags ...
Multiple security issues have been found in HAProxy, a load-balancing reverse proxy: CVE-2012-2942 Buffer overflow in the header capture code CVE-2013-1912 Buffer overflow in the HTTP keepalive code CVE-2013-2175 Denial of service in parsing HTTP headers For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in ve ...