Executive Summary

Summary
Title Tinyproxy: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201312-15 First vendor Publication 2013-12-23
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-12-23
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Tinyproxy, allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.8.3-r3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3505 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3505

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201312-15.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201312-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20162
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20162
Title: DSA-2564-1 tinyproxy - denial of service
Description: gpernot discovered that Tinyproxy, a HTTP proxy, is vulnerable to a denial of service by remote attackers by sending crafted request headers.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2564-1
CVE-2012-3505
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): tinyproxy
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 51

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-10-29 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2564-1 (tinyproxy)
File : nvt/deb_2564_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-587.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201312-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:59
  • Multiple Updates
2013-12-23 21:19:16
  • First insertion