perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perltidy: Uses current working directory without symlink-attack protection (CVE-2016-10374)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perltidy: insecure temporary file creation (CVE-2014-2277)

  - perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the     current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection     mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by     creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete. (CVE-2016-10374)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

Cumulative bug-fix, enhancement and security update, including fix for CVE-2016-10374: perltidy relies on the current working directory for certain output files and did not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim could not delete.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198641	RHEL 7 : perltidy (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
198575	RHEL 6 : perltidy (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196703	RHEL 7 : perltidy (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196668	RHEL 6 : perltidy (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
101718	Fedora 26 : perltidy (2017-c76259ddea)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
100741	Fedora 24 : perltidy (2017-1f11501a9f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
100732	Fedora 25 : perltidy (2017-a3c7d077c7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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