Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0254 (perl-Proc-ProcessTable)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0254: Updated perl-Proc-ProcessTable packages fix CVE-2011-4363 
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MGASA-2013-0254 - Updated perl-Proc-ProcessTable packages fix CVE-2011-4363

Publication date: 22 Aug 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0254.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2011-4363

Description:
Updated perl-Proc-ProcessTable package fixes security vulnerability:

ProcessTable.pm in the Proc::ProcessTable module 0.45 for Perl, when TTY
information caching is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary
files via a symlink attack on /tmp/TTYDEVS (CVE-2011-4363).

References:
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10928
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4363

SRPMS:
- 3/core/perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.480.0-1.mga3
- 2/core/perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.480.0-1.mga2