CVE-2009-3305: 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…

PriorityP428medium5CVSS 2.0

AVNACLAuNCNINAP

EXPLOIT

EPSS

10.07%

95.0th percentile

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
polipo	polipo	>= 0 < 1.0.4-1.1	1.0.4-1.1
pps.jussieu	polipo	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv5.0MEDIUM

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