# CVE-2018-20103: An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-12-12 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106280
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3858-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0326
- http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=58df5aea0a0c926b2238f65908f5e9f83d1cca25
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1436
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00045.html

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