CVE-2014-6269

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the http_request_forward_body function in proto_http.c in HAProxy 1.5-dev23 before 1.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large stream of data, which triggers a buffer overflow and an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

HAProxy: 1.5-dev23, 1.5-dev24, 1.5-dev25, 1.5-dev26, 1.5.0, 1.5.1 (+2)

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/17726
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/18097
http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.5.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b4d05093bc89f71377230228007e69a1434c1a0c
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1292.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59936
http://secunia.com/advisories/61507
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/09/23
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/17726
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/18097
http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.5.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b4d05093bc89f71377230228007e69a1434c1a0c
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1292.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59936

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