CVE-2009-3305: Pps.jussieu Polipo

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 10.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Polipo 1.0.4, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with a Cache-Control header that lacks a value for the max-age field, which triggers a segmentation fault in the httpParseHeaders function in http_parse.c, and possibly other unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Published 2009-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.