CVE-2012-4505

Summary

CVECVE-2012-4505
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-11 13:00:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:11:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the px_pac_reload function in lib/pac.c in libproxy 0.2.x and 0.3.x allows remote servers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Content-Length size in an HTTP response header for a proxy.pac file request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4504.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.2.3 All All All
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.3.0 All All All
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.3.1 All All All
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.2.3 All All All
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.3.0 All All All
Application Libproxy Project Libproxy 0.3.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-1629-1: libproxy vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2571-1 libproxy DEBIAN www.debian.org
Security Advisory SA51048 - SUSE update for libproxy - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA51308 - Red Hat update for libproxy - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
oss-security - Re: libproxy PAC downloading buffer overflows MLIST www.openwall.com
libproxy CVE-2012-4505 Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
oss-security - Re: libproxy PAC downloading buffer overflows MLIST www.openwall.com
Google Groups groups.google.com
openSUSE-SU-2012:1375-1: moderate: update for libproxy, libproxy-plugins SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Security Advisory SA51180 - Debian update for libproxy - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - libproxy PAC downloading buffer overflows MLIST www.openwall.com
864612 – (CVE-2012-4505) CVE-2012-4505 libproxy: PAC handling insufficient content length check leading to buffer overflow CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Google Groups CONFIRM groups.google.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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