Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-140
Advisory Release Date: 2012-11-20 06:25 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:15 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libproxy handled the downloading of proxy auto-configuration (PAC) files. A malicious server hosting a PAC file or a man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using libproxy to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code, if the proxy settings obtained by libproxy (from the environment or the desktop environment settings) instructed the use of a PAC proxy configuration. (CVE-2012-4505)
Affected Packages:
libproxy
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libproxy to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libproxy-bin-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.i686
libproxy-devel-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.i686
libproxy-python-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.i686
libproxy-debuginfo-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.i686
libproxy-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.i686
src:
libproxy-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libproxy-python-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.x86_64
libproxy-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.x86_64
libproxy-bin-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.x86_64
libproxy-devel-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.x86_64
libproxy-debuginfo-0.3.0-3.7.amzn1.x86_64