RHEL 9 : haproxy (RHSA-2023:1978)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 174727

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for haproxy.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1978 advisory.

The haproxy packages provide a reliable, high-performance network load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Security Fix(es):

* haproxy: segfault DoS (CVE-2023-0056)

* haproxy: request smuggling attack in HTTP/1 header parsing (CVE-2023-25725)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL haproxy package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1978.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 174727

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1978.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25725

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0056, CVE-2023-25725

CWE: 400, 444

RHSA: 2023:1978

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