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CVE-2018-20102

Publication date 12 December 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

An out-of-bounds read in dns_validate_dns_response in dns.c was discovered in HAProxy through 1.8.14. Due to a missing check when validating DNS responses, remote attackers might be able read the 16 bytes corresponding to an AAAA record from the non-initialized part of the buffer, possibly accessing anything that was left on the stack, or even past the end of the 8193-byte buffer, depending on the value of accepted_payload_size.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
haproxy 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 1.8.13-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.6.3-1ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
haproxy

Severity score breakdown

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3858-1
    • HAProxy vulnerabilities
    • 15 January 2019

Other references