Debian DSA-934-1 : pound - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22800

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pound, a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2005-1391 :
Overly long HTTP Host: headers may trigger a buffer overflow in the add_port() function, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- 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.

Solution

Upgrade the pound package.

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.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307852

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1391

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-3751

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-934

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22800

File Name: debian_DSA-934.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pound, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1391, CVE-2005-3751

DSA: 934