Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0089 (perl-FCGI)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0089: Updated perl-FCGI packages fix CVE-2012-6687 
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Wed, 2 Mar 2016 19:29:21 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0089 - Updated perl-FCGI packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Publication date: 02 Mar 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0089.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2012-6687

Description:
Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability:

FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the
FD_SET macro.  This FD_SET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file
descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption, and infinite
loop or daemon crash) by opening many socket connections to the host and
crashing the service (CVE-2012-6687).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17823
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/677312/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6687

SRPMS:
- 5/core/perl-FCGI-0.770.0-4.1.mga5