Buffer overflow in libproxy - CVE-2020-26154

 

Buffer overflow in libproxy - CVE-2020-26154

Published: September 30, 2020 / Updated: October 16, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU47695
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-26154
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

url.cpp in libproxy through 0.4.15 is prone to a buffer overflow when PAC is enabled, as demonstrated by a large PAC file that is delivered without a Content-length header.


Affected software

libproxy
IBM QRadar Incident Forensics
libproxy (Debian package)
libproxy (Alpine package)
libproxy1v5 (Ubuntu package)
libproxy-webkitgtk4
libproxy-help
python2-libproxy
libproxy-devel
python3-libproxy
libproxy-debugsource
libproxy-debuginfo
libproxy
IBM Qradar SIEM
Opensuse
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

How to mitigate CVE-2020-26154

Install update from vendor's website.

libproxy (Debian package) - update to 0.4.15-5+deb10u1
libproxy (Alpine package) - update to 0.4.15-r9
IBM Qradar SIEM - update to 7.5.0 Update Pack 10
libproxy1v5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.4.11-5ubuntu1.2, 0.4.15-1ubuntu0.2, 0.4.15-10ubuntu1.2, 0.4.15-13ubuntu1.1
libproxy-webkitgtk4 - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy-help - update to 0.4.15-14
python2-libproxy - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy-devel - update to 0.4.15-14
python3-libproxy - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy-debugsource - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy-debuginfo - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy - update to 0.4.15-14
libproxy - addressed in versions 0.4.15-19.fc32, 0.4.15-25.fc33
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 2.7.30, 2.8.24, 2.9.18, 2.10.10
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 2.7.31, 2.8.25, 2.9.19, 2.10.11
IBM QRadar Incident Forensics - update to 7.5.0.10

External References

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