Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5580

7.5

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date October 27, 2014
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory