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
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 ↗
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/dca6877a8117f0df ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38647 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37607 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047 ↗