From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 16:17:13 CDT

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TITLE:
Polipo Aborted POST Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26596

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26596/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Polipo 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/15490/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Polipo, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when handling
POST requests that were aborted by the server. This can be exploited
to e.g. crash the Polipo service by tricking a user into connecting
to a malicious server.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

Note: This also fixes a crash when handling entities larger than 2
GB.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tero Pelander.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/CHANGES.text

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