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William Lallemand 85a833feba BUG/MINOR: ssl-gencert: validate SNI characters to prevent SAN certificate injection
ssl_sock_add_san_ext() builds the Subject Alternative Name extension by
concatenating "DNS:" + servername and passing the result to
X509V3_EXT_nconf_nid(). OpenSSL's nconf parser splits the value string on
commas into multiple type:value SAN entries. The SNI comes from unauthenticated
TLS ClientHello data -- an attacker can embed commas and colons (e.g.,
"host,dns:internal.corp,ip:10.0.0.1") to inject arbitrary GENERAL_NAME entries
into certificates signed by HAProxy's configured CA.

This is a CA issuance-policy violation: the operator expects one certificate
per SNI hostname, but an attacker can obtain certificates containing additional
hostnames/IPs/emails without access to the CA private key.

Fix by adding ssl_sock_sni_is_valid() that validates the SNI contains only
DNS-label-legal characters (alphanumeric, hyphens, dots). The check is
performed at the start of ssl_sock_do_create_cert() before any allocation.
Commas, colons, spaces, and other special characters cause certificate
generation to fail, preventing SAN injection while allowing all valid
hostname values.

Must be backported in every maintained branches.
2026-05-27 10:20:55 +02:00
.github CI: github: add DEBUG_STRICT=2 to ASAN jobs 2026-04-30 17:46:30 +02:00
addons BUG/MINOR: addons/51d: NUL-terminate headers before passing them to Trie API 2026-05-26 13:13:24 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev14 2026-05-26 21:56:40 +02:00
examples MEDIUM: mux_quic: rename qmux traces to qcm 2026-05-13 16:23:58 +02:00
include BUG/MEDIUM: h1-htx: Sanitize parsing to properly handle upgrade requests 2026-05-26 18:28:07 +02:00
reg-tests BUG/MINOR: h1: Don't mask websocket protocol if multiple protocols used 2026-05-19 17:50:50 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: announce-release: add a link to the OpenTelemetry filter 2026-05-08 12:05:09 +02:00
src BUG/MINOR: ssl-gencert: validate SNI characters to prevent SAN certificate injection 2026-05-27 10:20:55 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES CLEANUP: tree-wide: fix typos in user-invisible files 2026-05-13 17:03:48 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev14 2026-05-26 21:56:40 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: update supported gcc and openssl versions in INSTALL 2026-05-20 17:45:23 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: traces: add USE_TRACE allowing to disable traces 2026-05-20 11:46:43 +02:00
README.md CI: github: add cross-zoo.yml in README.md 2026-04-20 11:47:20 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev14 2026-05-26 21:56:40 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev14 2026-05-26 21:56:40 +02:00

HAProxy

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.