Debian Security Advisory DSA 3253-1 (pound - security update)

Pound, a HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer, had several issues related to vulnerabilities in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. For Debian 7 (wheezy) this update adds a missing part to make it actually possible to disable client-initiated renegotiation and disables it by default (CVE-2009-3555). TLS compression is disabled (CVE-2012-4929), although this is normally already disabled by the OpenSSL system library. Finally it adds the ability to disable the SSLv3 protocol (CVE-2014-3566) entirely via the new DisableSSLv3 configuration directive, although it will not disabled by default in this update. Additionally a non-security sensitive issue in redirect encoding is addressed. For Debian 8 (jessie) these issues have been fixed prior to the release, with the exception of client-initiated renegotiation (CVE-2009-3555 ). This update addresses that issue for jessie.

pound on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-2+deb7u1. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-6+deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-6.1. We recommend that you upgrade your pound packages.