CVE-2012-5580

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-94

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 27, 2014
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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