Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-25219: libproxy pac server can trigger unbounded recursion in url.cpp recvline
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
09/09/2020
09/24/2020
09/23/2020
11/30/2020
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libproxy
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