Apsis Pound before 2.8a allows request smuggling via crafted headers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3751.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4702-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Pound incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests A remote attacker could use it to     retrieve some sensitive information. (CVE-2016-10711, CVE-2018-21245)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A regression has been found in the patch for CVE-2016-10711 of pound, a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web servers.

Without the fix pound can be tricked to use 100% CPU.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-6+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your pound packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A request smuggling vulnerability was discovered in pound that may allow attackers to send a specially crafted http request to a web server or reverse proxy while pound may see a different set of requests. This facilitates several possible exploitations, such as partial cache poisoning, bypassing firewall protection and XSS.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pound packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for pound fixes one issue.

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2016-10711: Prevent request smuggling via crafted     headers (bsc#1078298).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
145409	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Pound vulnerabilities (USN-4702-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
136205	Debian DLA-2196-2 : pound regression update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
106781	Debian DLA-1280-1 : pound security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
106666	openSUSE Security Update : pound (openSUSE-2018-143)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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