CVE-2012-5580

published 2014-10-27

CVE-2012-5580: 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…

Priority P3 36 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	libproxy	< libproxy 0.3.1-4 (bookworm)	libproxy 0.3.1-4 (bookworm)
libproxy_project	libproxy	—	—
libproxy_project	libproxy	>= 0 < 0.3.1-4	0.3.1-4
libproxy_project	libproxy	>= 0 < 0.3.1-4	0.3.1-4
libproxy_project	libproxy	>= 0 < 0.3.1-4	0.3.1-4
libproxy_project	libproxy	>= 0 < 0.3.1-4	0.3.1-4

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 LOW

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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