CVE-2012-5580

Name	CVE-2012-5580
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libproxy (PTS)	bullseye	0.4.17-1	fixed
	bookworm	0.4.18-1.2	fixed
	sid, trixie	0.5.7-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libproxy	source	(unstable)	0.3.1-4	low

[squeeze] - libproxy <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086
https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475