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HAProxy Trash Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6900

Synopsis

The remote host is running a load balancer with a buffer overflow vulnerability

Description

Based on the version obtained for HAProxy, the remote host is running load balancing software that is potentially affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability when copying data into the trash buffer

Solution

Upgrade to HAProxy version 1.4.21 or higher

See Also

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/src/CHANGELOG

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6900

Family: Web Servers

Published: 7/1/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 59798

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haproxy:haproxy

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2942

BID: 53647