CVE-2012-5580 — Code Injection in Project Libproxy

CWE-94 — Code Injection7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Libproxy Project Libproxy
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy.c in libproxy 0.3.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a proxy name, as demonstrated using the http_proxy environment variable or a PAC file.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianlibproxy_project/libproxy< 0.3.1-4+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mccr-h554-3wjw: Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-5580: Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy↗2014-10-27
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OSV
CVE-2012-5580: Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy↗2014-10-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libproxy: format string flaw in bin/proxy↗2012-11-24
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Debian
CVE-2012-5580: libproxy - Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy.c in libp...↗2012
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-5580 libproxy: format string flaw in bin/proxy↗2012-12-03
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CVE-2012-5580 — Code Injection in Project Libproxy | cvebase