CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3305
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Polipo 1.0.4, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with a Cache-Control header that lacks a value for the max-age field, which triggers a segmentation fault in the httpParseHeaders function in http_parse.c, and possibly other unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• pps.jussieu polipo 1.0.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047 bugs.debian.org
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/dca6877a8117f0df groups.google.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37607 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38647 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 www.securityfocus.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047 bugs.debian.org
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/dca6877a8117f0df groups.google.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37607 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38647 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 www.securityfocus.com