HAProxy is a freely distributed, open source load balancer. It load balances TCP service. It is free, reliable and fast, offering high-availability, load-balancing and proxy-ing for TCP & HTTP applications. It’s an excellent choice for high traffic or bandwidth-consuming web sites. For the last few years it has been a standard load balancer, bundled with many Linux distributions, …

A new critical vulnerability has been identified, affecting the memory region called the ‘stack’ in multiple systems, including Linux. Attackers may use this vulnerability to corrupt the memory and execute code at their discretion. If you’re using RedHat-based systems or Debian, you can read more about it, including how to patch, here: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/stackguard https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3889