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GLSA-200606-05 : Pound: HTTP request smuggling

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21666

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200606-05 (Pound: HTTP request smuggling)

 Pound fails to handle HTTP requests with conflicting 'Content-Length' and 'Transfer-Encoding' headers correctly.
 Impact :

 An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending HTTP requests with specially crafted 'Content-Length' and 'Transfer-Encoding' headers to bypass certain security restrictions or to poison the web proxy cache.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Pound users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose www-servers/pound

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200606-05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21666

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200606-05.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 6/8/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pound, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3751

GLSA: 200606-05