Gentoo: GLSA 200606-05 Moderate: Pound HTTP Smuggling Threat
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June 7, 2006
Pound is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, which could be exploited to bypass security restrictions or poison web caches.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Low
Title: Pound: HTTP request smuggling
Date: June 07, 2006
Bugs: #118541
ID: 200606-05
Synopsis
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Pound is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, which could be exploited
to bypass security restrictions or poison web caches.
Background
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Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows
to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper
for web servers that do not support SSL directly.
Affected packages
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1 www-servers/pound < 2.0.5 >= 2.0.5
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Pound fails to handle HTTP requests wi...
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