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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!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>