USN-7135-1

Bahruz Jabiyev, Anthony Gavazzi, Engin Kirda, Kaan Onarlioglu, Adi Peleg, and Harvey Tuch discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled empty header names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to manipulate headers and bypass certain authentication checks and restrictions.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / haproxy

Package

Name: haproxy
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/haproxy@1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2

Affected versions

1.*

1.5.14-1

1.5.15-1

1.6.2-1

1.6.2-2

1.6.2-2ubuntu1

1.6.2-2ubuntu3

1.6.3-1

1.6.3-1ubuntu0.1

1.6.3-1ubuntu0.2

1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3

1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "haproxy",
            "binary_version": "1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "haproxy-dbg",
            "binary_version": "1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "haproxy-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "haproxy-doc",
            "binary_version": "1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-haproxy",
            "binary_version": "1.6.3-1ubuntu0.3+esm2"
        }
    ]
}