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Fedora 22 : perl-5.20.3-330.fc22 (2016-5a9313e4b4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90956

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes CVE-2015-8853 (regexp matching hangs indefinitely on illegal UTF-8 input).

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=1329106

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ce12ef9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90956

File Name: fedora_2016-5a9313e4b4.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8853