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RHEL 8 : perl (RHSA-2021:2184)
high Nessus Plugin ID 150136
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2184 advisory.- perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS (CVE-2020-12723)
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-2021:2184.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?eb4392c8
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2184
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 150136
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2184.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/2/2021
Updated: 4/28/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12723
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
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-utils
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: 6/2/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-12723