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A haproxy security update has been released for Arch Linux.



Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202004-7
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Severity: Critical
Date : 2020-04-08
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-11100
Package : haproxy
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : Yes
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1124

Summary
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The package haproxy before version 2.1.4-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 2.1.4-1.

# pacman -Syu "haproxy>=2.1.4-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 2.1.4.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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An out-of-bounds memory write has been found in HAProxy before 2.1.4,
in the HPACK table management code.

Impact
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A remote attacker might be able to execute code via a crafted HTTP/2
request.

References
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  https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-2.1.git;a=commitdiff;h=f17f86304f187b0f10ca6a8d46346afd9851a543;hp=dd6f0b1a74fb1241d276484f3c4aced513a95b78
  https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-11100