Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : haproxy vulnerabilities (USN-1800-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65980

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled configurations where global.tune.bufsize was set to a value higher than the default.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2942)

Yves Lafon discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled HTTP keywords in TCP inspection rules when HTTP keep-alive is enabled. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1912).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected haproxy package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1800-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65980

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1800-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:haproxy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2942, CVE-2013-1912

BID: 53647, 58820

USN: 1800-1