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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