CVE-2012-5580
Published: 27 October 2014
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | only used in "proxy" tool in libproxy-tools package, and caught by FORTIFY_SOURCE. Reproducer from SUSE bug: http_proxy=http://foo%n.suse.de/ proxy http://foo.bar.de |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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libproxy Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
hardy |
Does not exist
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| lucid |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
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| oneiric |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| precise |
Not vulnerable
(0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1)
|
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| quantal |
Not vulnerable
(0.4.7-0ubuntu6)
|
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| raring |
Not vulnerable
(0.4.10-0ubuntu1)
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(0.3.1-5.1)
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Patches: upstream: https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475 |
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| This vulnerability is mitigated in part by the use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in Ubuntu. | ||