[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: perl-Proc-Daemon-0.14-9.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12424
2013-12-19 15:54:45
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Name        : perl-Proc-Daemon
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 0.14
Release     : 9.el6
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-Daemon/
Summary     : Run Perl program as a daemon process
Description :
This is version 0.14 of Proc::Daemon

This module contains the routine Init which can be called by a Perl
program to initialize itself as a daemon. A daemon is a process that
runs in the background with no controlling terminal. Generally servers
(like FTP and HTTP servers) run as daemon processes.

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Update Information:

- add patch from debian to fix pidfile with mode 666, CVE-2013-7135
- update to 0.14 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DETI/Proc-Daemon-0.14/Changes
- fix wrong-file-end-of-line-encoding and file-not-utf8


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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1043872 - CVE-2013-7135 perl-Proc-Daemon: writes pidfile with mode 666
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043872
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update perl-Proc-Daemon' at the command line.
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