Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2002-1 polipo -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 19 Feb 2010
- Affected Packages:
- polipo
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 547047, Bug 560779.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-3305, CVE-2009-4413. - More information:
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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 sever 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.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your polipo packages.
- CVE-2009-3305
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/polipo/polipo_1.0.4-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.