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Gentoo: GLSA-201307-01 High Severity: HAProxy Multiple Issues

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2013
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Security vulnerabilities in HAProxy highlighted in Gentoo's GLSA 201307-01 can lead to arbitrary code execution and DoS attacks, making upgrades essential for system security
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in HAProxy, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HAProxy. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity arbitrary code execution Denial of Service HAProxy

Resolution

All HAProxy users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/haproxy-1.4.24"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-1912 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1912 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-2175 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2175

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201307-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: HAProxy: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 11, 2013
Bugs: #464340, #473674
ID: 201307-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity arbitrary code execution Denial of Service HAProxy

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in HAProxy, allowing attackersto execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Background

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/haproxy < 1.4.24 >= 1.4.24

Impact

===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the application or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.