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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.845044
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5063-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'haproxy' package(s) announced via the USN-5063-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'haproxy' package(s) announced via the USN-5063-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Ori Hollander discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled HTTP header name
length encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
a duplicate content-length header and perform request smuggling attacks.

Affected Software/OS:
'haproxy' package(s) on Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-40346
Debian Security Information: DSA-4968 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4968
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A7V2IYO22LWVBGUNZWVKNTMDV4KINLFO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MXTSBY2TEAXWZVFQM3CXHJFRONX7PEMN/
https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/commit/3b69886f7dcc3cfb3d166309018e6cfec9ce2c95
https://jfrog.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-haproxy-cve-2021-40346-integer-overflow-enables-http-smuggling/
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg41114.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r284567dd7523f5823e2ce995f787ccd37b1cc4108779c50a97c79120@%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8a58fd7a29808e5d27ee56877745e58dc4bb041b9af94601554e2a5a@%3Cdev.cloudstack.apache.org%3E
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