[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: perl-CGI-3.52-218.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-19282
2012-11-28 10:42:49
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Name        : perl-CGI
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.52
Release     : 218.fc17
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI
Summary     : Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
Description :
CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing
HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form
submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation
and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML
generation utilities are included as well.

CGI.pm performs very well in in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes
with built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI.

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Update Information:

Fix CVE-2012-5526 (escape new-lines in Set-Cookie and P3P HTTP response headers properly) in CGI-3.52.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 26 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 3.52-218
- 3.52 bump
- Fix CVE-2012-5526 (escape new-lines in Set-Cookie and P3P response headers
  properly (bug #876974)
* Fri Nov 16 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 3.51-7
- Improper new-line escaping in Set-Cookie and P3P headers is known as
  CVE-2012-5526 (bug #876974)
* Thu Nov 15 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 3.51-6
- Escape new-lines in Set-Cookie and P3P response headers properly (bug #876974)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #877015 - CVE-2012-5526 perl-CGI: Newline injection due to improper CRLF escaping in Set-Cookie and P3P headers
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877015
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