RHEL 6 / 7 : haproxy 1.5 (RHSA-2015:1741)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85977

Synopsis

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

Description

An updated haproxy package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. HAProxy provides high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

An implementation error related to the memory management of request and responses was found within HAProxy's buffer_slow_realign() function. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to leak certain memory buffer contents from a past request or session. (CVE-2015-3281)

Note that, according to CVE-2015-3281, this issue only exists in HAProxy version 1.5.x prior to 1.5.14. All HAProxy users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected haproxy and / or haproxy-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2015-3281.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1741.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85977

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1741.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2015

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:haproxy-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3281

BID: 75554

RHSA: 2015:1741