gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200809-11.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200809-11">
  <title>HAVP: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in HAVP.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">havp</product>
  <announced>2008-09-21</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-09-21</revised>
  <bug>234715</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-proxy/havp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.89</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.89</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when
    connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting
    in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All HAVP users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-proxy/havp-0.89"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3688">CVE-2008-3688</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-18T21:30:12Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-09-18T21:30:30Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-09-19T11:28:47Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>