Fedora Core 4 : perl-5.8.6-18 (2005-1113)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20257

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixed CVE-2005-3962 / CVE-2005-3912:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113342788118630&w=2 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3912 backported upstream patch #26240

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl, perl-debuginfo and / or perl-suidperl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20257

File Name: fedora_2005-1113.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/7/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-suidperl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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: 12/1/2005

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3912

BID: 15629

FEDORA: 2005-1113

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