Security Information / 2020 / Security Information -- DSA-4800-1 libproxy

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4800-1 libproxy -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Nov 2020

Affected Packages:

libproxy

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 968366, Bug 971394.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-25219, CVE-2020-26154.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in libproxy, an automatic proxy configuration management library, which could result in denial of service, or possibly, execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.15-5+deb10u1.

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