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CVE-2018-20103

HIGHEPSS 93th pctl
7.5
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.

How to fix

Remediation Available
haproxyDebian
Fixed in:1.8.15-1CVE-2018-20103
Fixed in:1.8.15-1CVE-2018-20103
Fixed in:1.8.15-1CVE-2018-20103
Fixed in:1.8.15-1CVE-2018-20103
haproxyUbuntu
Fixed in:1.6.3-1ubuntu0.2USN-3858-1
Fixed in:1.8.8-1ubuntu0.3USN-3858-1

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

6.59%probability of exploitation in 30 days
93rdpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 93% of all known CVEs.

References

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