Gentoo FoundationGLSA-201312-15Tinyproxy: Denial of service
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.1%
Background
Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.
Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers.
Impact
A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.8.3-r3"
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gentoo | any | all | net-proxy/tinyproxy | < 1.8.3-r3 | UNKNOWN |
Related
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.1%