CVE-2018-14645

Published: 21 September 2018

A flaw was discovered in the HPACK decoder of HAProxy, before 1.8.14, that is used for HTTP/2. An out-of-bounds read access in hpack_valid_idx() resulted in a remote crash and denial of service.

Notes

Author	Note
leosilva	only affected 1.8.x.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
haproxy Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1.8.8-1ubuntu0.2)
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was not-affected)
	upstream	Released (1.8.13-2)
	xenial	Not vulnerable

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

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