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Debian: DSA 934-1 Critical: Remote Code Execution in Pound

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN 1234-1 addresses two vulnerabilities in the Apache web server that may lead to potential remote exploitation and data breaches.
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pound, a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP

Summary


* CVE-2005-3751:
HTTP requests with conflicting Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding
headers could lead to HTTP Request Smuggling Attack, which can be
exploited to bypass packet filters or poison web caches.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain pound packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8.2-1sarge1

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.9.4-1

We recommend that you upgrade your pound package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


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