CVE-2018-20103
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.066 · 94 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.
remediations
Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.
A vendor fix is available.
- Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-debuginfo-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-debuginfo-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-debuginfo-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-debuginfo-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-debuginfo-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436 - Fixedrh-haproxy18-haproxy-syspaths-0:1.8.17-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)redhat_csaf
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
weaknesses
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affected products (44)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
advisories (1)
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- RHSA-2019:1436Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-haproxy18-haproxy security, bug fix, and enhancement update2019-06-11csaf · redhat_csafUS
An update for rh-haproxy18-haproxy is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
also known as (4)
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sources
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references (25)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=commit;h=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106280cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0326cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00045.htmlcnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3858-1/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.2072/cnnvd
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