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Debian DSA-3301-1 : haproxy - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84511

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Synopsis

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

Description

Charlie Smurthwaite of aTech Media discovered a flaw in HAProxy, a fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy, when HTTP pipelining is used. A client can take advantage of this flaw to cause data corruption and retrieve uninitialized memory contents that exhibit data from a past request or session.

Solution

Upgrade the haproxy packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.8-3+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/haproxy

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3301

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84511

File Name: debian_DSA-3301.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, 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: 7/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3281

DSA: 3301