CVE-2016-5360

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 42.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

HAproxy 1.6.x before 1.6.6, when a deny comes from a reqdeny rule, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04
HAProxy: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5

References

http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60f01f8c89e4fb2723d5a9f2046286e699567e0b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/6
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3011-1
http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=60f01f8c89e4fb2723d5a9f2046286e699567e0b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/6
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3011-1

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