[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: Pound-2.6-8.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-13777
2014-10-28 05:17:21
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Name        : Pound
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.6
Release     : 8.fc20
URL         : http://www.apsis.ch/pound
Summary     : Reverse proxy and load balancer
Description :
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and
HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed
to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers
and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web
servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed
under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and
give away

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Update Information:

Backport various security fixes.
Note they usually are extra options that need
to be enabled manually so that we won't break functionality:
- CVE-2011-3389: Make it possible to deny use of "BEAST" vulnerable ciphers
- CVE-2012-4929: Disable compression to be safe from "CRIME"
- CVE-2005-2090: Chunked encofing response splitting (no awkward name here)
- CVE-2014-3566: Allow disabling SSLv3 (and others), to be safe from "POODLE"
- A redirect XSS fix
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 24 2014 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> - 2.6-8
- Backport various security fixes. Note they usually are extra options that need
  to be enabled manually so that we won't break functionality:
- CVE-2011-3389: Make it possible to deny use of "BEAST" vulnerable ciphers
- CVE-2012-4929: Disable compression to be safe from "CRIME"
- CVE-2005-2090: Chunked encofing response splitting (no awkward name here)
- CVE-2014-3566: Allow disabling SSLv3 (and others), to be safe from "POODLE"
- A redirect XSS fix
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update Pound' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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