CVE-2016-5360

Publication date 10 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
haproxy	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.6.3-1ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

issue introduced in 1.6.0

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
haproxy	Upstream: http://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-1.6.git;a=commit;h=60f01f8c89e4fb2723d5a9f2046286e699567e0b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H