[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: perl-Proc-Daemon-0.14-9.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23646
2013-12-20 00:29:26
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Name        : perl-Proc-Daemon
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.14
Release     : 9.fc18
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
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 18 2013 Remi Collet <remi at fedoraproject.org> 0.14-9
- fix pidfile with mode 666, patch from debian, CVE-2013-7135
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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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