CVE-2012-2942

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-2942
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-05-27 20:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the trash buffer in the header capture functionality in HAProxy before 1.4.21, when global.tune.bufsize is set to a value greater than the default and header rewriting is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Haproxy Haproxy All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Malformed Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
oss-security - Duplicate CVE identifiers (CVE-2012-2391 and CVE-2012-2942) assigned to HAProxy issue af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Index of /git af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 haproxy.1wt.eu
USN-1800-1: HAProxy vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2711-1 haproxy af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: haproxy trash buffer overflow flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
haproxy.1wt.eu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 haproxy.1wt.eu
oss-security - CVE request: haproxy trash buffer overflow flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/src/CHANGELOG af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 haproxy.1wt.eu
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- HAProxy: Arbitrary code execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Index of /git MITRE haproxy.1wt.eu
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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