Debian DSA-2711-1 : haproxy - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66936

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the haproxy packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.8-1+squeeze1.

The stable distribution (wheezy) doesn't contain haproxy.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66936

File Name: debian_DSA-2711.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:haproxy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2942, CVE-2013-1912, CVE-2013-2175

BID: 53647, 58820, 60588

DSA: 2711

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