Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libproxy package, versions <0.4.15-1ubuntu0.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.39% (74th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBPROXY-1009492
- published 18 Sep 2020
- disclosed 9 Sep 2020
Introduced: 9 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-25219 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
libproxy
to version 0.4.15-1ubuntu0.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libproxy
package and not the libproxy
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:18.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an infinite stream that lacks a newline character. This leads to stack exhaustion.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-25219
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4800
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JF5JSONJNO64ARWRVOS6K6HSIPHEF3H2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSVZAAVHBJR3Z4MZNR55QW3OQFAS2STH/
- https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy/issues/134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00033.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4514-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JF5JSONJNO64ARWRVOS6K6HSIPHEF3H2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSVZAAVHBJR3Z4MZNR55QW3OQFAS2STH/