Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

BID:2217

Info

Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2217
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 17 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 17 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Reported to bugtraq by <[email protected]> on Wed, 17 Jan 2001.
Vulnerable: tinyproxy tinyproxy 1.3.3
tinyproxy tinyproxy 1.3.2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Versions 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 of tinyproxy, a small HTTP proxy, exhibit a vulnerability to heap overflow attacks.

A failure to properly validate user-supplied input which arguments a call to sprintf() can allow unexpectedly large amounts of input to a buffer (used to display error messages) to be written past the boundary of the allocated space on the heap.

As a result, it may be possible to execute a denial of service attack, or even to execute arbitrary commands if certain internal memory structures can be successfully overwritten.

Exploit / POC

Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit was provided by <[email protected]> on Wed, 17 Jan 2001:

Solution / Fix

Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Fixed v.1.3.3a is available at http://tinyproxy.sourceforge.net/tinyproxy-1.3.3a.tar.gz


tinyproxy tinyproxy 1.3.2

tinyproxy tinyproxy 1.3.3

References

Tinyproxy Heap Overflow Vulnerability

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