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Fedora 36 : perl-HTTP-Daemon (2023-c230cc08c4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172251

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c230cc08c4 advisory.

 6.16 2023-02-24 03:07:14Z

 - Bump LWP::UserAgent to 6.37 in TestSuggests (GH#65) (Olaf Alders)

 6.15 2023-02-22 22:02:46Z

 - Fix CVE-2022-31081: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests Correctly handle multiple Content-Length headers and its variants (Theo van Hoesel) Closes Discrepancies in the Parsing of Content Length header ... (GH#56) (blessingcharles)
 - kill test server with KILL rather than QUIT (GH#63) (Graham Knop)
 - Create TestServer test lib for running daemon process (GH#62) (Graham Knop)
 - Clean up tests (GH#61) (Graham Knop)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected perl-HTTP-Daemon package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-c230cc08c4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172251

File Name: fedora_2023-c230cc08c4.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-http-daemon, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31081