[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#1115086: erlang: CVE-2016-1000107

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

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