CVE-2009-4413 Information

Description

The httpClientDiscardBody function in client.c in Polipo 0.9.8 0.9.12 1.0.4 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with a large Content-Length value which triggers an integer overflow a signed-to-unsigned conversion error with a negative value and a segmentation fault.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560779 http://secunia.com/advisories/37607 http://secunia.com/advisories/38647 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/12/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463