Ubuntu 14.10 / 15.04 : haproxy vulnerability (USN-2668-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84619

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain buffers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information belonging to previous requests.

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/2668-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84619

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2668-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:haproxy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3281

BID: 75554

USN: 2668-1