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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.1.2010.2002
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2002-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'polipo' package(s) announced via the DSA-2002-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'polipo' package(s) announced via the DSA-2002-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in polipo, a small, caching web proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-3305

A malicous remote sever could cause polipo to crash by sending an invalid Cache-Control header.

CVE-2009-4143

A malicous client could cause polipo to crash by sending a large Content-Length value.

This upgrade also fixes some other bugs that could lead to a daemon crash or an infinite loop and may be triggerable remotely.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your polipo packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'polipo' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3305
BugTraq ID: 37463
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37463
Debian Security Information: DSA-2002 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2002
http://secunia.com/advisories/37607
http://secunia.com/advisories/38647
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4413
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/12/4
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