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CVE-2020-25219

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.1730%
EPSS Percentile13.49th
PublishedSep 9, 2020
Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an infinite stream that lacks a newline character. This leads to stack exhaustion.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦
Libproxy Project

Libproxy

>= 0.4.0 and <= 0.4.15
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Debian

Debian Linux

= 9.0
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Debian

Debian Linux

= 10.0
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Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 31
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Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 32
💻
Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 33
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Opensuse

Leap

= 15.1
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Opensuse

Leap

= 15.2
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Canonical

Ubuntu Linux

= 16.04
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Canonical

Ubuntu Linux

= 18.04
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Canonical

Ubuntu Linux

= 20.04

References & Advisories

🔗 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00030.html
🔗 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00033.html
🔗 https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy/issues/134
🔗 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00012.html
🔗 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR/
🔗 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JF5JSONJNO64ARWRVOS6K6HSIPHEF3H2/
🔗 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSVZAAVHBJR3Z4MZNR55QW3OQFAS2STH/
🔗 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4514-1/

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