CVE-2018-10184

HIGH

HAProxy < 1.8.8 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via H2 Frame Length Mismatch

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in HAProxy before 1.8.8. The incoming H2 frame length was checked against the max_frame_size setting instead of being checked against the bufsize. The max_frame_size only applies to outgoing traffic and not to incoming, so if a large enough frame size is advertised in the SETTINGS frame, a wrapped frame will be defragmented into a temporary allocated buffer where the second fragment may overflow the heap by up to 16 kB. It is very unlikely that this can be exploited for code execution given that buffers are very short lived and their addresses not realistically predictable in production, but the likelihood of an immediate crash is absolutely certain.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0843
EPSS Percentile 94.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (5)
haproxy/haproxy < 1.8.8
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.3
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.4
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.5
Published May 09, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026