CVE-2020-36420

Summary

CVECVE-2020-36420
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-15 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:22:00 UTC
Description** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Polipo through 1.1.1, when NDEBUG is omitted, allows denial of service via a reachable assertion during parsing of a malformed Range header. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Polipo Project Polipo All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Polipo: denial-of-service using range MISC www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: Polipo: denial-of-service using range MLIST www.openwall.com
Rephrase README. · jech/polipo@4d42ca1 · GitHub MISC github.com
755896 – net-proxy/polipo: DoS via malformed header MISC bugs.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report