Polipo POST request denial of service
| polipo-post-dos (36268) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Polipo is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when handling POST requests aborted by the server. By persuading a victim to connect to a malicious server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the service.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.2 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Polipo (1.0.2 or later), available from the Polipo Web site. See References.
References:
- Polipo Web page: 1.0.2 Change Log: Polipo POST Denial of Service.
- Polipo Web site: Polipo ¿ a caching web proxy.
- CVE-2007-4625: Polipo before 1.0.2 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by aborting the response to a POST request.
- SA26596: Polipo Aborted POST Request Denial of Service Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2973: Polipo POST Request Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Juliusz Chroboczek Polipo prior to 1.0.2
Reported:
Aug 26, 2007
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