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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2450-1 libproxy -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

13 Nov 2020

Affected Packages:

libproxy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 968366.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-26154.

More information:

Li Fei found that libproxy, a library for automatic proxy configuration management, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when receiving a large PAC file from a server without a Content-Length header in the response.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.14-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libproxy packages.

For the detailed security status of libproxy please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libproxy

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