CVE-2012-5580

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.

Date published : 2014-10-27

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086