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Fedora 18 : perl-Module-Metadata-1.000015-1.fc18 (2013-15157)

high Nessus Plugin ID 69530

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update clarifies the module's documentation about the code it executes, i.e. it does 'eval' a module to determine its version number. Previously it said that it did not execute unsafe code.

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-Module-Metadata package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996281

http://www.nessus.org/u?74e9e7e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69530

File Name: fedora_2013-15157.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-module-metadata

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1437

FEDORA: 2013-15157