SB2018100912 - Red Hat update for haproxy
Published: October 9, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018100912
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Buffer over-read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14645)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the HPACK decoder in hpack_valid_idx() function. A remote attacker can send a specially specially crafted HTTP/2 request, trigger out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.