CVE-2012-3505

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via (1) a large number of headers or (2) a large number of forged headers that trigger hash collisions predictably. bucket.

Affected products

Banu Tinyproxy: through 1.8.3; 1.5.0, 1.5.0-pre1, 1.5.0-pre2, 1.5.0-pre3, 1.5.0-pre4, 1.5.0-pre5 (+45)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685281
http://secunia.com/advisories/50278
http://secunia.com/advisories/51074
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2564
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/18/1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027412
https://banu.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110
https://banu.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110#c2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tinyproxy/+bug/1036985
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685281
http://secunia.com/advisories/50278

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