Executive Summary

Summary
Title HAVP: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200809-11 First vendor Publication 2008-09-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-09-21
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in HAVP.

Background

HAVP is a HTTP AntiVirus Proxy.

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

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3688 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3688

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

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-11.xml

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions
CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
CAPEC-172 Time and State Attacks

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200809-11 (havp)
File : nvt/glsa_200809_11.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47512 HTTP Anti Virus Proxy (HAVP) Infinite Loop Connection Saturation DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-09-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200809-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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