CVE-2009-3305
polipo - denial of service
EPSS 11.7%
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.
How to fix CVE-2009-3305
To remediate CVE-2009-3305, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/polipo—upgrade to 1.0.4-1.1 or later
- Debian/polipo—upgrade to 1.0.4-1+lenny1 or later
Is CVE-2009-3305 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 11.7%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.4-1.1
- from 0, < 1.0.4-1+lenny1