VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-3305

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability10.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-12-24
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references