DSA-934-1 pound -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-934-1 pound -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2006

Affected Packages:

pound

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 307852.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1391, CVE-2005-3751.

More information:

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.

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.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pound package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pound/pound_1.8.2-1sarge1_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.