CVE-2012-2942
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.1 · Memory corruption
5.1CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Buffer overflow in the trash buffer in the header capture functionality in HAProxy before 1.4.21, when global.tune.bufsize is set to a value greater than the default and header rewriting is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49261Advisory
- http://haproxy.1wt.eu/#news
- http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/src/CHANGELOG
- http://haproxy.1wt.eu/git?p=haproxy-1.4.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=30297cb17147a8d339eb160226bcc08c91d9530b
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-02.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2711
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/15