Bug#607479: tagging 607479, severity of 607479 is grave

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Thu Sep 8 12:05:54 UTC 2011


> This bug just caused a serious security incident for us, and I was able
> to work through the cause and the reason why not everyone sees it.  The
> problem was introduced in 0.70 and is still present in 0.73.

>The following change was added in 0.70:

> sub accept() {
>     warn "accept called as a method; you probably wanted to call Accept"
if @_;
> -    if (defined %FCGI::ENV) {
> -       %ENV = %FCGI::ENV;
> +    if (%FCGI::ENV) {
> +        %ENV = %FCGI::ENV;
>      } else {
> -        %FCGI::ENV = %ENV;
> +        %FCGI::ENV = %ENV;
>     }

Please use CVE-2011-2766 to refer to this issue.


Thanks,
Thijs





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