haproxy vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in HAProxy.
Software Description
- haproxy - fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy
Details
It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-20102)
It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. A attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20103, CVE-2018-20615)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- haproxy - 1.8.13-2ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- haproxy - 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- haproxy - 1.6.3-1ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.