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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4968-1 haproxy -- security update

Date Reported:

07 Sep 2021

Affected Packages:

haproxy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-40346.

More information:

Ori Hollander reported that missing header name length checks in the htx_add_header() and htx_add_trailer() functions in HAProxy, a fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy, could result in request smuggling attacks or response splitting attacks.

Additionally this update addresses #993303 introduced in DSA 4960-1 causing HAProxy to fail serving URLs with HTTP/2 containing '//'.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.9-2+deb11u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your haproxy packages.

For the detailed security status of haproxy please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/haproxy