CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-25219
url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an infinite stream that lacks a newline character. This leads to stack exhaustion.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-674
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- libproxy_project:libproxy
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00033.html
- https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy/issues/134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00012.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR/