Vulnerability CVE-2009-3305
Published: 2009-12-24   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Pps.jussieu -> Polipo 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002
http://secunia.com/advisories/38647
http://secunia.com/advisories/37607
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/dca6877a8117f0df
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047
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