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Fedora 29 : perl-YAML (2019-fb2c321d46)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124689

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update enforces that $LoadCode must be enabled to use the feature of evaluating typeglobs, because with the typeglob feature you would be able to set the variable $YAML::LoadCode from a YAML file, and that would be a security issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl-YAML package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-fb2c321d46

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124689

File Name: fedora_2019-fb2c321d46.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2019

Updated: 9/23/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-yaml

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2019

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