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CVE-2012-5580

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

• Libproxy Project Libproxy: 0.3.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100
• https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100
• https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340

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