oss-security - CVE Request -- Polipo -- Assertion failure by processing certain HTTP POST / PUT requests

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Message-ID: <4E898853.4010305@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:02:59 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@....jussieu.fr>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request -- Polipo -- Assertion failure by processing certain
 HTTP POST / PUT requests

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   a denial of service flaw was found in the way Polipo, a lightweight
caching web proxy, processed certain HTTP POST / PUT requests. If
polipo was configured to allow remote client connections and particular
host was allowed to connect to polipo server instance, a remote
attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service (polipo daemon
abort due to assertion failure) via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT
request.

References:
[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/10
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385307
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742891

Could you allocate a CVE id for this?

Thank you && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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