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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2587-1 libcgi-pm-perl -- HTTP header injection

Date Reported:

11 Dec 2012

Affected Packages:

libcgi-pm-perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 693421.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-5526.

More information:

It was discovered that the CGI module for Perl does not filter LF characters in the Set-Cookie and P3P headers, potentially allowing attackers to inject HTTP headers.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.49-1squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.61-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcgi-pm-perl packages.