Any idea on how to test this?

CC: (none) => goetz.waschk

firefox, iceape, vlc-plugin-common and python-libproxy use libproxy1

python-libproxy can be tested as below

$ python python.py
direct://

$ cat python.py
import libproxy

URL = "http://www.google.com"

pf = libproxy.ProxyFactory()
for proxy in pf.getProxies(URL):
  # Do something with the proxy
  print proxy

libproxy-perl looks as if it should be able to use the example here but it fails for me:
http://search.cpan.org/~goneri/Net-Libproxy-0.03/lib/Net/Libproxy.pm

Also, should it be called perl-Net-Libproxy to fit with our perl module naming scheme?

libproxy-gnome is required by gnome-control-center, are there proxy settings there?

The other rpm's are not required by anything so showing the things above are Ok should be enough.

With the update candidate your example works as expected in mga2 x86_64.

Additionally libproxy-utils has /usr/bin/proxy which takes a URL as an arguement and returns the proxies.

$ proxy http://google.com
direct://

Thanks for testing Götz and welcome to Mageia btw

Testing complete on Mageia 2 i586, Mageia 1 i586, and Mageia 1 x86-64.

Could someone from the sysadmin team push the srpm
libproxy-0.4.7-6.1.mga2.src.rpm
from Mageia 2 Core Updates Testing to Core Updates and the srpm
libproxy-0.4.6-8.1.mga1.src.rpm
from Mageia 1 Core Updates Testing to Core Updates

Advisory: Updated libproxy packages fix security vulnerability:

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the libproxy's url::get_pac() used
to download proxy.pac proxy auto-configuration file.  A malicious host
hosting proxy.pac, or a man in the middle attacker, could use this flaw to
trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in an application using libproxy, if
proxy configuration instructed it to download proxy.pac file from a remote
HTTP server (CVE-2012-4504).

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4504
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864417
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00065.html

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7887

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins, sysadmin-bugs
Whiteboard: MGA1TOO has_procedure MGA2-64-OK => MGA1TOO has_procedure MGA2-64-OK MGA2-32-OK MGA1-64-OK MGA1-32-OK

update pushed:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0309

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED