CVE-2012-5580

2014-10-2700:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

EPSS

0.012

Percentile

85.3%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086>

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