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Debian Lenny DSA-2002-1 Moderate: Polipo Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2010
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Update the polipo package on Debian to address several denial of service vulnerabilities highlighted in security bulletins.
Several denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in polipo, a small, caching web proxy

Summary

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.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding...

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