Source: erlang Version: 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/3392 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for erlang. CVE-2016-1000107[0]: | inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier follows RFC 3875 section | 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence | of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, | which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's | outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted | Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue. While the issue was marked unimportant, still filling a bug for it as it in the end recently got addressed, see references. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1000107 [1] https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/3392 [2] https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-wrj5-4mmp-gvr8 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
