Tinyproxy: Denial of Service A vulnerability has been found in Tinyproxy, allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. tinyproxy 2013-12-23 2013-12-23 432046 remote 1.8.3-r3 1.8.3-r3

Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.

A vulnerability has been discovered in the way how Tinyproxy works with headers.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request with too many headers, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.8.3-r3" CVE-2012-3505 creffett pinkbyte