CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4413
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-189
Description
The httpClientDiscardBody function in client.c in Polipo 0.9.8, 0.9.12, 1.0.4, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with a large Content-Length value, which triggers an integer overflow, a signed-to-unsigned conversion error with a negative value, and a segmentation fault.
Affected configurations
• pps.jussieu polipo 0.9.8
• pps.jussieu polipo 0.9.12
• pps.jussieu polipo 1.0.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560779 bugs.debian.org
- 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.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/12/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 www.securityfocus.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560779 bugs.debian.org
- 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.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/12/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 www.securityfocus.com