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Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
0001-BUG-CRITICAL-mjson-fix-possible-DoS-when-parsing-num.patch BUG/CRITICAL: mjson: fix possible DoS when parsing numbers
Mjson comes with its own strtod() implementation for portability
reasons and probably also because many generic strtod() versions as
provided by operating systems do not focus on resource preservation
and may call malloc(), which is not welcome in a parser.

The strtod() implementation used here apparently originally comes from
https://gist.github.com/mattn/1890186 and seems to have purposely
omitted a few parts that were considered as not needed in this context
(e.g. skipping white spaces, or setting errno). But when subject to the
relevant test cases of the designated file above, the current function
provides the same results.

The aforementioned implementation uses pow() to calculate exponents,
but mjson authors visibly preferred not to introduce a libm dependency
and replaced it with an iterative loop in O(exp) time. The problem is
that the exponent is not bounded and that this loop can take a huge
amount of time. There's even an issue already opened on mjson about
haproxy, fortunately, the watchdog will quickly stop a runaway process
but this remains a possible denial of service.

A first approach would consist in reintroducing pow() like in the
original implementation, but if haproxy is built without Lua nor
51Degrees, -lm is not used so this will not work everywhere.

Anyway here we're dealing with integer exponents, so an easy alternate
approach consists in simply using shifts and squares, to compute the
exponent in O(log(exp)) time. Not only it doesn't introduce any new
dependency, but it turns out to be even faster than the generic pow()
(85k req/s per core vs 83.5k on the same machine).

This must be backported as far as 2.4, where mjson was introduced.

Many thanks to Oula Kivalo for reporting this issue.
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> no 2025-09-29
reproducible.patch diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 566bdb26a3e7..8603dea25c21 100644
no
cross.patch no
haproxy.service-start-after-syslog.patch Start after rsyslog.service
As HAProxy is running chrooted by default, we rely on an additional syslog
socket created by rsyslog inside the chroot for logging. As this socket cannot
trigger syslog activation, we explicitly order HAProxy after rsyslog.service.
Note that we are not using syslog.service here, since the additional socket is
rsyslog-specific.
Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> no 2017-12-01
haproxy.service-add-documentation.patch Add documentation field to the systemd unit Debian HAProxy Maintainers no 2014-01-03
haproxy.service-make-systemd-bind-dev-log-inside-chroot.patch haproxy.service: make systemd bind /dev/log inside chroot
This enables logging to work without rsyslog being present.
Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> no 2021-11-25

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