gentoo-full-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200405-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200405-08">
  <title>Pound format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    There is a format string flaw in Pound, allowing remote execution of
    arbitrary code with the rights of the Pound process.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pound</product>
  <announced>2004-05-18</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>50421</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/pound" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">1.5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A format string flaw in the processing of syslog messages was
    discovered and corrected in Pound.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    This flaw may allow remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights
    of the Pound daemon process. By default, Gentoo uses the "nobody" user
    to run the Pound daemon.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to
    upgrade to the latest available version of Pound.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All users of Pound should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv "&gt;=www-servers/pound-1.6"
    # emerge "&gt;=www-servers/pound-1.6"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.apsis.ch/pound/pound_list/archive/2003/2003-12/1070234315000#1070234315000">Pound announcement</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2026">CVE-2004-2026</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>