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Gentoo update for mod_rpaf


Secunia ID

SA50787

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-3526

Release Date

28 Sep 2012

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for mod_rpaf. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) in an application using the module.

For more information:
SA50400

Solution

Update to "www-apache/mod_rpaf-0.6" or later.

Original Advisory

GLSA 201209-20:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201209-20.xml