CVE-2012-3505
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via (1) a large number of headers or (2) a large number of forged headers that trigger hash collisions predictably. bucket.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.8.3-3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.8.3-3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.8.3-3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.8.3-3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.8.3-3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| banu | tinyproxy | {"endIncluding":"1.8.3"} | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.5.0 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.5.1 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.5.2 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.5.3 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.0 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.1 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.2 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.3 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.4 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.6.5 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.7.0 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.7.1 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.8.0 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.8.1 | |
| banu | tinyproxy | 1.8.2 | |
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685281
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50278
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51074
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2564
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/18/1
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027412
- https://banu.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110
- https://banu.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110#c2
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tinyproxy/+bug/1036985
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3505
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.