Gentoo: GLSA-200411-07 Normal: Proxytunnel Format String Issue
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November 3, 2004
Proxytunnel is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially allowing a remote server to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the Proxytunnel process
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Proxytunnel: Format string vulnerability
Date: November 03, 2004
Bugs: #69379
ID: 200411-07
Synopsis
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Proxytunnel is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially
allowing a remote server to execute arbitrary code with the rights of
the Proxytunnel process.
Background
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Proxytunnel is a program that tunnels connections to a remote server
through a standard HTTPS proxy.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/proxytunnel < 1.2.3 >= 1.2.3
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Florian Schilhabel of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit project found a
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