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Ubuntu 25.04: HAProxy Critical Denial of Service CVE-2025-11230

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
HAProxy undergoes critical update to fix crash vulnerability from crafted network traffic. Ensure your system is updated.
HAProxy could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 25.04 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: HAProxy could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description: - haproxy: fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy Details: Oula Kivalo discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled parsing certain json numbers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause HAProxy to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu network traffic haproxy

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 25.04 haproxy 3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS haproxy 2.8.5-1ubuntu3.4 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS haproxy 2.4.24-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7805-1

CVE-2025-11230

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7805-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu network traffic haproxy

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haproxy/3.0.8-1ubuntu1.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haproxy/2.8.5-1ubuntu3.4

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