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Gentoo: GLSA 200606-05 Moderate: Pound HTTP Smuggling Threat

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2006
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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 ======= Pound is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, which could be exploited to bypass security restrictions or poison web caches.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/pound < 2.0.5 >= 2.0.5
========== Pound fails to handle HTTP requests wi...

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