VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0804

critical
Published 2012-05-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the proxy_connect function in src/client.c in CVS 1.11 and 1.12 allows remote HTTP proxy servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP response.

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.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:1.12.13+real-7
sid Fixed 2:1.12.13+real-7
forky Fixed 2:1.12.13+real-7
bullseye Fixed 2:1.12.13+real-7
bookworm Fixed 2:1.12.13+real-7

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cvscvs1.11
cvscvs1.12

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.