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RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-perl524-perl (RHSA-2018:1192)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 194024
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-perl524-perl.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1192 advisory.Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.
Security Fix(es):
* perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c (CVE-2018-6797)
* perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c (CVE-2018-6798)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Perl 5 Porters for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Brian Carpenter as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6797; and Nguyen Duc Manh as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6798.
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.
Solution
Update the RHEL rh-perl524-perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1192.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?76bde9f2
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547779
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 194024
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1192.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/27/2024
Updated: 4/15/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6797
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-macros, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigint-fastcalc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-bignum, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-module-loaded, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigrat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-core
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: 4/23/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-6797, CVE-2018-6798