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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:10:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re:  CVE request: polipo DoS via overly large
 "Content-Length" header


On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:

> A vulnerability has been found in polipo that allows a remote attacker to
> crash the daemon via an overly large "Content-Length" header.

Use CVE-2009-4413, to be filled in later.

Note: CVE-2009-3305 has been assigned to a separate crash using a 
malformed Cache-Control line, as documented in 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547047

- Steve

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