ubuntu · CVE-2012-5580

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Priority: low Published: 2014-10-27 22:55:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-5580 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libproxy), 7 status rows across 7 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): not-affected 3, ignored 2, DNE 1, released 1.

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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