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Fedora 23 : perl-5.22.1-351.fc23 (2016-5d4fc5ecc9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89555

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix manipulating environment variables to align with how glibc handles duplicated environment variables. Perl now uses the first variable listed in the environment array and it removes any subsequent entries of the same-named variable from the array, so that child processes have only one variable instance in its environment.

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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309214

http://www.nessus.org/u?94e34b3a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89555

File Name: fedora_2016-5d4fc5ecc9.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2381