CVE-2013-1912 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.1 Published 10 Apr 2013 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests in HAProxy when specific keep-alive and rewrite rules are enabled.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2013-1912?

CVE-2013-1912 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Apr 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in HAProxy 1.4 through 1.4.22 and 1.5-dev through 1.5-dev17, when HTTP keep-alive is enabled, using HTTP keywords in TCP inspection rules, and running with rewrite rules that appends to requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted pipelined HTTP requests that prevent request realignment from occurring.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1912?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (4)

`haproxy` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server	All versions	`0:1.4.22-4.el6_4`
`haproxy-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server	All versions	`0:1.4.22-4.el6_4`
`haproxy` Red Hat:openshift:1::el6	All versions	`0:1.4.22-5.el6op`
`haproxy-debuginfo` Red Hat:openshift:1::el6	All versions	`0:1.4.22-5.el6op`

Products include Haproxy Haproxy.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1912?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-1912 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1912 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1912, GHSA-xgv2-5whc-jjqv, RHSA-2013:0729, RHSA-2013:0868.