Alpine: multiple libproxy packages: security update to 0.4.7-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401325

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Stack-based buffer overflow in the url::get_pac function in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x before 0.4.9 allows
remote servers to have an unspecified impact via a large proxy.pac file. (CVE-2012-4504)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401325

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4504

BID: 55909

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