The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1678 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * perl: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10543)

    * perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to integer overflow     leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10878)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes     linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : perl (RHSA-2021:1678)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149678

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