CVE-2009-3305

Pps.jussieu Polipo - Improper Input Validation

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
perldoslinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10338

Scores

EPSS 0.1172
EPSS Percentile 93.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
pps.jussieu/polipo 1.0.4
Published Dec 24, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026