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This could\nbe used to carry out Man in the Middle Attacks (MIDM) or create\nconnections to arbitrary hosts 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(bsc#981347)\n- fix out of bounds read in mod_scgi (debian#857255)\n","status":"published","published":"2017-03-17T14:12:17Z","modified":"2026-02-04T03:48:53.541907Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:43.83457Z"},{"id":"SUSE-SU-2017:0731-1","title":"Security update for lighttpd","description":"\nThis update for lighttpd fixes the following issues:\n\nSecurity issues fixed:\n\n- CVE-2016-1000212: Don't allow requests to set the HTTP_PROXY variable. As *CGI apps\n  might pick it up and use it for outgoing requests. (bsc#990847)\n- CVE-2015-3200: Log injection via malformed base64 string in Authentication header.\n  (bsc#932286)\n\nBug fixes:\n\n- Add su directive to logrotate file as the directory is owned by lighttpd. 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