CVE-2012-5580 (GCVE-0-2012-5580)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-27 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:14
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Summary
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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No CVSS data available.
CWE
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