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Fedora 28 : perl-Email-Address (2019-8deebad756)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121238

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.912, fixes CVE-2015-7686 and CVE-2018-12558.

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 perl-Email-Address package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-8deebad756

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121238

File Name: fedora_2019-8deebad756.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2019

Updated: 6/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7686

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12558

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7686, CVE-2018-12558