CVE-2018-20103

HIGH

HAProxy <1.8.14 - Stack Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106280
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3858-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0326
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00045.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.4%
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-835
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
haproxy/haproxy < 1.8.14
redhat/openshift_container_platform 3.11
Published Dec 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026