ELSA-2014-1292 -- Oracle haproxyID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1500727 | Date: (C)2014-09-25 (M)2023-11-10 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
An updated haproxy package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. Description HAProxy provides high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way HAProxy handled, under very specific conditions, data uploaded from a client. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash HAProxy. All haproxy users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.