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CentOS 7 : perl (CESA-2019:0109)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 121371

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for perl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

Security Fix(es) :

* perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() (CVE-2018-18311)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Perl project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Jayakrishna Menon as the original reporter.

Solution

Update the affected perl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fab7d101

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 121371

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-0109.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2019

Updated: 2/20/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18311

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-tests, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18311

RHSA: 2019:0109