RHSA-2024:6205 — Security Advisory

An update for libproxy is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libproxy packages provide a library that handles all the details of proxy configuration. The libproxy library provides a stable external API, dynamic adjustment to changing network topology, and small core footprint. It does not use external dependencies within the libproxy core, however libproxy plug-ins may have dependencies.

Security Fix(es):

• libproxy: sending more than 102400 bytes in PAC without a Content-Length present could result in buffer overflow (CVE-2020-26154)

• libproxy: uncontrolled recursion via an infinite stream response leading to stack exhaustion (CVE-2020-25219)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.