DSA-786-1 simpleproxy -- format string vulnerability

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-786-1 simpleproxy -- format string vulnerability

Date Reported:

26 Aug 2005

Affected Packages:

simpleproxy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1857.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#139421.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in simpleproxy, a simple TCP proxy, that can be exploited via replies from remote HTTP proxies.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.2-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.2-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your simpleproxy package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.