VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-20103

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability6.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-12-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Primary references