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Fedora 28 : 4:perl (2018-d1ba58394e)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120813

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release provides Perl 5.26.2 that fixes a heap buffer overflow in the pack() function and two overflows in regular expression engine.

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.

Solution

Update the affected 4:perl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-d1ba58394e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120813

File Name: fedora_2018-d1ba58394e.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 6/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:4:perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6797, CVE-2018-6798, CVE-2018-6913