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
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25
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