Vulnerability in Pps.jussieu Polipo
CVE-2009-4413
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.087 (94.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.087 · newest: 0.087 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Pps.jussieu Polipo — versions 0.9.8, 0.9.12, 1.0.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463 (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/12/4 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/38647 (third-party-advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/37607 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338 (exploit)
- www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002 (vendor-advisory)