MGASA-2016-0089

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    MGASA-2016-0089

    Published: 2 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-6687

    Summary: Updated perl-FCGI packages fix CVE-2012-6687

    Details: 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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0089.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17823, http://lwn.net/Alerts/677312/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl-FCGI

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/perl-FCGI?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.770.0-4.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High