TITLE:
Polipo Disclosure of Sensitive Information

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16978

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/16978/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Unknown, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Polipo 0.x
https://secunia.com/product/5772/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Polipo, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the local
web server, which can be exploited to disclose the content of files
outside of the local root.

An off-by-one error when parsing NL-terminated headers with an
unknown impact has also been reported by the vendor.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.9.8. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.9:
https://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/polipo/polipo-0.9.9.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Wessel Dankers.

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