Debian DLA-431-1 : libfcgi-perl security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88972

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a remote denial of service in libfcgi-perl, a helper library for implementing the FastCGI web server protocol for Perl.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libfcgi-perl version 0.71-1+squeeze1+deb6u1.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected libfcgi-perl package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88972

File Name: debian_DLA-431.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfcgi-perl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6687

BID: 74454

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