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Fedora 7 : perl-5.8.8-26.fc7 (2007-3255)

high Nessus Plugin ID 28191

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Resolves CVE-2007-5116: perl regular expression UTF parsing errors

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378131

http://www.nessus.org/u?dee4abf0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 28191

File Name: fedora_2007-3255.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-extutils-makemaker, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-test-harness, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-test-simple, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-suidperl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5116

BID: 26350

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2007-3255