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USN-1629-1: libproxy vulnerabilities

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USN-1629-1: libproxy vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/11/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the px_pac_reload function in lib/pac.c in libproxy 0.2.x and 0.3.x allows remote servers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Content-Length size in an HTTP response header for a proxy.pac file request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4504.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libproxy0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libproxy1

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