Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libproxy (opens in a new tab)
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed27 Oct 2014
Introduced: 27 Oct 2014
CVE-2012-5580 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libproxy package and not the libproxy package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-5580
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100
- https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340