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GLSA-200809-11 : HAVP: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34251

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200809-11 (HAVP: Denial of Service)

 Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All HAVP users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-proxy/havp-0.89'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200809-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34251

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200809-11.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 9/22/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:havp, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3688

CWE: 399

GLSA: 200809-11