CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5580
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-10-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
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.
Affected configurations
• libproxy project libproxy 0.3.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100 Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475 code.google.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100 Exploit
- https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475 code.google.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com