RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-perl524-perl (RHSA-2019:0010)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194040

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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-2019:0010 advisory.

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es):

* perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

* perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_handle_regex_sets() (CVE-2018-18312)

* perl: Heap-based buffer overflow in S_regatom() (CVE-2018-18314)

* perl: Heap-based buffer read overflow in S_grok_bslash_N() (CVE-2018-18313)

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 the Perl project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18311; Eiichi Tsukata as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18312 and CVE-2018-18313; and Jakub Wilk as the original reporter of CVE-2018-18314.

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-2019:0010.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194040

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0010.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18314

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18311, CVE-2018-18312, CVE-2018-18313, CVE-2018-18314

CWE: 120, 122, 125, 22

RHSA: 2019:0010

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