GLSA 200809-11: HAVP: Denial of Service

Severity:normal
Title:HAVP: Denial of Service
Date:09/21/2008
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 Architecture(s)
net-proxy/havp < 0.89 >= 0.89 All supported architectures

Description

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All HAVP users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/havp-0.89"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-11.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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