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Message-ID: <20121016154915.50540e5e@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:49:15 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libproxy PAC downloading buffer overflows

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:43:06 +0200 Tomas Hoger wrote:

> libproxy 0.4.9 fixes a buffer overflow reported by Tomas Mraz:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=853
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/libproxy/VxZ8No7mT0E
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4504

Anyone updating 0.4.x version to fixed upstream version should consider
picking 0.4.10, which fixes an infinite loop in the PAC downloading
code (incorrectly fixed in 0.4.9, reportedly also breaking chunked
encoding downloads).

-- 
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team

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