CRLF injection vulnerability in the cookie method (lib/Dancer/Cookie.pm) in Dancer before 1.3114 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a cookie name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5526.

This release fixes CR-LF injection into Cookie HTTP header (CVE-2012-5572).

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

Updated perl-Dancer package fixes CVE-2012-5572

A security flaw was found in the way Dancer.pm, lightweight yet powerful web application framework / Perl language module, performed sanitization of values to be used for cookie() and cookies() methods.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary headers into responses from (Perl) applications, that use Dancer.pm (CVE-2012-5572).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
67391	Fedora 17 : perl-Dancer-1.3093-3.fc17 (2013-9961)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
67390	Fedora 18 : perl-Dancer-1.3100-3.fc18 (2013-9950)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
67389	Fedora 19 : perl-Dancer-1.3111-3.fc19 (2013-9918)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
67013	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Dancer (MDVSA-2013:184)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium

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