severity 627503 important
tag 627503 - security
retitle 627503 Validate Port directive value
thanks

A small summary of what's going on with this:

- The Debian security team does not consider this to be a security issue
  as tinyproxy's configuration file is under the control of the admin, and
  an exploit needs changing the Port value to something that can trigger a
  buffer overflow.

- This was fixed anyway in a Debian patch in 1.8.2-2, which is currently
  in testing and unstable.

- 1.8.3-1, recently uploaded to unstable, is the first upstream release to
  officially include this fix.

- We're uploading 1.8.2squeeze2 to stable so the fix appears in the next
  point release anyway, via the normal t-p-u path.

Thanks,
Jordi
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