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Fedora 16 : perl-FCGI-0.74-1.fc16 (2011-13130)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56363

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to the latest upstream version resolves CVE-2011-2766 - stop leaking information across requests when using the deprecated and undocumented old FCGI interface.

This update resolves CVE-2011-2766.

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.

Solution

Update the affected perl-FCGI package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736604

http://www.nessus.org/u?e266f099

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56363

File Name: fedora_2011-13130.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-fcgi, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2766

FEDORA: 2011-13130