CVE-2012-2942: haproxy

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-2942 is a medium (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability in haproxy. EPSS estimates a 5.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 27-05-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer overflow in the trash buffer in the header capture functionality in HAProxy before 1.4.21, when global.tune.bufsize is set to a value greater than the default and header rewriting is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.