CVE-2009-3305 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2009-12-24

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 11.7% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pps.jussieu:polipo:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-2002-1	New polipo packages fix denial of service

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.11718.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Pps.jussieu Polipo

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-12-24T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:22:24.285Z

Reserved: 2009-09-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3305

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-12-24T16:30:00.217

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-3305

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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