Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU35039

Reachable Assertion in Debian Linux - CVE-2011-3596

Published: November 26, 2019 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU35039

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3596

CWE-ID: CWE-617

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vendor: Debian

Affected software:
Debian Linux

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

Install update from vendor's website.