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Gentoo: GLSA 200504-29 High: Pound Buffer Overflow Risk of Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2005
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Gentoo Linux security advisory GLSA 202310-38 discloses a severe buffer overflow vulnerability in Apache affecting potential remote code execution.
Pound is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-29 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Pound: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: April 30, 2005 Bugs: #90851 ID: 200504-29

Synopsis ======= Pound is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/pound < 1.8.3 >= 1.8.3
========== Steven Van Acker has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the "add_port()" function in Pound.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a request for an overly long hostname para...

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