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High ALSA-2026:55679 2 CVEs

Important: haproxy security update

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* haproxy: HAProxy: Denial of Service via HPACK dynamic table insertions (CVE-2026-55204)
* haproxy: HAProxy: Response smuggling due to integer overflow in FastCGI record length handling (CVE-2026-55203)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 haproxy 3.0.5-6.el10_2.2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.5

    HAProxy - Integer Overflow in FCGI Demux Record Length Field

    HAProxy through 3.4.0, fixed in commit 5985276, contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the fcgi_conn structure's drl field that allows buffer misparse as new FCGI record headers. When contentLength is 65535 and paddingLength is 1 or more, the drl field…

  • High 7.5

    HAProxy - NULL Pointer Dereference in hpack_dht_insert Function

    HAProxy through 3.4.0, fixed in commit 9a6d1fe, contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in hpack_dht_insert() within src/hpack-tbl.c that fails to validate the return value of hpack_dht_defrag() when the memory pool is exhausted. An attacker can tri…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55203
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55204
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2490518
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2490522
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-55679.html