Gentoo: 200809-11 Normal: HAVP Denial of Service Advisory

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: HAVP: Denial of Service Date: September 21, 2008 Bugs: #234715 ID: 200809-11

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in HAVP.
Background ========= HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/havp < 0.89 >= 0.89
========== Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service.
Workaround ========= T...