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Fedora Core 6 : perl-5.8.8-12 (2007-748)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29196

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update resolves CVE-2007-5116, fixing a security issue with perl's regex parser.

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?01751147

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29196

File Name: fedora_2007-748.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-suidperl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-748