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CVE-2009-3305

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-12-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Polipo 1.0.4, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with a Cache-Control header that lacks a value for the max-age field, which triggers a segmentation fault in the httpParseHeaders function in http_parse.c, and possibly other unspecified vectors.

Affected Platforms

Pps.Jussieu Polipo

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References