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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2025-34451 EUVD-2025-204400GHSA-8qj4-vcg9-jq63

rofl0r/proxychains-ng <= 4.17 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated May 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

rofl0r/proxychains-ng versions up to and including 4.17 and prior to commit cc005b7 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the function proxy_from_string() located in src/libproxychains.c. When parsing crafted proxy configuration entries containing overly long username or password fields, the application may write beyond the bounds of fixed-size stack buffers, leading to memory corruption or crashes. This vulnerability may allow denial of service and, under certain conditions, could be leveraged for further exploitation depending on the execution environment and applied mitigations.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rofl0r proxychains-ng ≤ 4.17 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 proxychains-ng 4.17-3.1 —
Debian 13 proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Debian 12 proxychains-ng No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS proxychains-ng No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS proxychains-ng No fix yet —

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