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NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : perl Vulnerability (NS-SA-2021-0127)

high Nessus Plugin ID 154452

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Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has perl packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

 - regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls. (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

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL perl packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

http://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2021-0127

http://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2020-12723

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154452

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2021-0127_perl.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/27/2021

Updated: 10/27/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-devel-peek-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-io-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-time-piece-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-interpreter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:perl-utils, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12723

IAVA: 2020-A-0268