CVE-2009-3305 Information

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.

Reference

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