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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: libproxy security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:6205-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6205
Issue date:         2024-09-03
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2020-25219
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Summary: 

An update for libproxy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

The libproxy packages provide a library that handles all the details of proxy configuration. The libproxy library provides a stable external API, dynamic adjustment to changing network topology, and small core footprint. It does not use external dependencies within the libproxy core, however libproxy plug-ins may have dependencies.

Security Fix(es):

* libproxy: sending more than 102400 bytes in PAC without a Content-Length present could result in buffer overflow (CVE-2020-26154)

* libproxy: uncontrolled recursion via an infinite stream response leading to stack exhaustion (CVE-2020-25219)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2020-25219

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869639
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880349