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Mandriva Update for perl-CGI MDVSA-2012:180 (perl-CGI)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl-CGI' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in perl-CGI: CGI.pm module before 3.63 for Perl does not properly escape newlines in (1) Set-Cookie or (2) P3P headers, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers into responses from applications that use CGI.pm (CVE-2012-5526). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected Software

Affected Software

perl-CGI on Mandriva Linux 2011.0, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)