RHSA-2020:1725 — Security Advisory

An update for haproxy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The haproxy packages provide a reliable, high-performance network load balancer for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: haproxy (1.8.23). (BZ#1774745)

Security Fix(es):

• haproxy: HTTP request smuggling issue with transfer-encoding header containing an obfuscated "chunked" value (CVE-2019-18277)

• haproxy: HTTP/2 implementation vulnerable to intermediary encapsulation attacks (CVE-2019-19330)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.