gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201312-15.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201312-15">
  <title>Tinyproxy: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Tinyproxy, allows remote
    attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tinyproxy</product>
  <announced>2013-12-23</announced>
  <revised count="1">2013-12-23</revised>
  <bug>432046</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-proxy/tinyproxy" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.3-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.3-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating
      systems.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with
      headers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many
      headers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.8.3-r3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3505">CVE-2012-3505</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-10-10T03:12:39Z">
    creffett
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-12-23T17:53:38Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>