CVE-2009-3305
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 10.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 10.1% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3287)
- Published
- December 24, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3287 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pps.jussieu / polipo
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/dca6877a8117f0df
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37607(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38647
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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