GLSA 201312-15: Tinyproxy: Denial of Service

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Tinyproxy: Denial of Service
Date:	12/23/2013
Bugs:	#432046
ID:	201312-15

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Tinyproxy, allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-proxy/tinyproxy	< 1.8.3-r3	>= 1.8.3-r3	All supported architectures

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.8.3-r3"

References

CVE-2012-3505

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201312-15.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.