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Fedora 33: 2020-15b775b07e Moderate: Libproxy PAC Buffer Overflow Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey October 1, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update for libproxy version 0.4.15-25 in Fedora 33 effectively resolves a critical PAC buffer overflow issue with a well-timed fix.
Add fix for PAC buffer overflow

Summary

libproxy offers the following features:

* extremely small core footprint (< 35K)

* no external dependencies within libproxy core

(libproxy plugins may have dependencies)

* only 3 functions in the stable external API

* dynamic adjustment to changing network topology

* a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios

* a sublime sense of joy and accomplishment

Add fix for PAC buffer overflow

* Tue Sep 29 2020 David King - 0.4.15-25

- Fix PAC buffer overflow (#1883584)

[ 1 ] Bug #1869639 - CVE-2020-26154 libproxy: sending more than 102400 bytes in PAC without a Content-Length present could result in buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869639

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-15b775b07e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.4.15
Release: 25.fc33
Summary: A library handling all the details of proxy configuration

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