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CVE-2018-20103

Published: 12 December 2018

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
haproxy
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (1.8.8-1ubuntu0.3)
cosmic
Released (1.8.13-2ubuntu0.1)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream
Released (1.8.15-1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=commit;h=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H