CVE-2018-20103

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20103
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-12 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:56:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Haproxy Haproxy All All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Repositories - haproxy.git/commit MISC git.haproxy.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Repositories - haproxy.git/commit git.haproxy.org
USN-3858-1: HAProxy vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
HAProxy 'dns.c' Stack Exhaustion Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] [DLA 3034-1] haproxy security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179335 Debian Security Update for haproxy (DLA 3034-1)
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