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Fedora 38 : perl-HTML-StripScripts (2023-a42aa9700f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 177361

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a42aa9700f advisory.

 - The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes. (CVE-2023-24038)

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-HTML-StripScripts package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a42aa9700f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 177361

File Name: fedora_2023-a42aa9700f.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2023

Updated: 6/16/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-html-stripscripts

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: 6/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24038