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havp: denial of service

Package(s):havp CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3688
Created:September 22, 2008 Updated:September 24, 2008
Description:

From the Gentoo advisory:

Peter Warasin reported an infinite loop in sockethandler.cpp when connecting to a non-responsive HTTP server.

A remote attacker could send requests to unavailable servers, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Alerts:
Gentoo 200809-11 2008-09-21

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