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RHEL 7 : perl (RHSA-2019:1942)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127629

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1942 advisory.

 Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

 Security Fix(es):

 * perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1942.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?31ece883

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1942

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646730

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127629

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1942.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2018-18311

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18311

CWE: 120

RHSA: 2019:1942