Debian DSA-2002-1 : polipo - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44866

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in polipo, a small, caching web proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-3305 A malicous remote server could cause polipo to crash by sending an invalid Cache-Control header.

- CVE-2009-4143 A malicous client could cause polipo to crash by sending a large Content-Length value.

This upgrade also fixes some other bugs that could lead to a daemon crash or an infinite loop and may be triggerable remotely.

Solution

Upgrade the polipo packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1+lenny1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44866

File Name: debian_DSA-2002.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 4/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:polipo, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3305, CVE-2009-4413

CWE: 189, 20

DSA: 2002

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