Fedora 15 : perl-FCGI-0.74-1.fc15 (2011-13230)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56366

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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 and includes several additional fixes. See the upstream [changelog](http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FLORA/FCGI-0.73/ChangeLog) for further details.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56366

File Name: fedora_2011-13230.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2766

FEDORA: 2011-13230

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