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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70542
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2327-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libfcgi-perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2327-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libfcgi-perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2327-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Ferdinand Smit discovered that FCGI, a Perl module for writing FastCGI applications, is incorrectly restoring environment variables of a prior request in subsequent requests. In some cases this may lead to authentication bypasses or worse.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-1+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.73-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.73-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libfcgi-perl packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libfcgi-perl' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2766
BugTraq ID: 49549
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49549
Debian Security Information: DSA-2327 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2327
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:001
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/08/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/08/2
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0004 (Google Search)
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154637
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0036 (Google Search)
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155253
XForce ISS Database: perlfast-cgi-security-bypass(69709)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69709
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