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RHEL 9 : perl (RHSA-2024:2228)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194795

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2228 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * perl: Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode property (CVE-2023-47038)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2228.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?507e1d1c

http://www.nessus.org/u?d922e0bf

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194795

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2228.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:perl-autosplit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-meta-notation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-odbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-benchmark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selectsaver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-base, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filetest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langinfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vars, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-debugger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filehandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sigtrap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-if, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dirhandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-english, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autoloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fields, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-open3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-functions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-config-extensions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-deprecate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dumpvalue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-class-struct, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dynaloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-unicode-ucd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-opcode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overloading, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-diagnostics, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-getopt-std, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-findbin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sys-hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sort, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vmsish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-user-pwent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-complete, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dbm_filter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-gdbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-mro, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encoding-warnings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-posix, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-blib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-compare, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-subs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-search-dict, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-next, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-abbrev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fcntl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ndbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-copy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-stat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-constant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-collate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-safe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util-fieldhash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-net, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread-semaphore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-less, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-dosglob, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-basename, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filecache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-find, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-readline, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autouse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langtags, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-symbol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overload

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: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47038

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2024:2228