debian · CVE-2012-5580

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:42:13 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-5580 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libproxy), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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.

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