Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting libproxy package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.13% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBPROXY-1331902
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Nov 2012

Introduced: 24 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5580  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libproxy.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libproxy package and not the libproxy package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1