CVE-2009-3305

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-3305
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-12-24 16:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionPolipo 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pps.jussieu Polipo 1.0.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Google Groups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 groups.google.com
Security Advisory SA38647 - Debian update for polipo - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2002-1 polipo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Polipo Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Polipo Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
#547047 - polipo crashes when server reply contains "Cache-Control: max-age" - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
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