CVE-2009-3305

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Pps.Jussieu Polipo: 1.0.4

References

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
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

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