Title: apt-www-proxy NULL HTTP Request Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
apt-www-proxy is a proxy server designed for use with web-based apt-get repositories.
A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for apt-www-proxy. The 'parse_get()' function in 'utils.c' will fail when attempting to parse HTTP requests. This will cause the process to crash thus resulting in a denial of service condition.
To restore functionality, the apt-www-proxy service must be restarted.
This vulnerability has been reported for apt-www-proxy 0.1.
Affected Products:
- apt-www-proxy apt-www-proxy 0.1.0
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