Reachable Assertion in Debian Linux - CVE-2011-3596
Published: November 26, 2019 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35039
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3596
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request.
Affected software
Debian Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2011-3596
Install update from vendor's website.