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