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CentOS 7 : perl (CESA-2021:0343)
high Nessus Plugin ID 146100
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:0343 advisory.- perl: heap-based buffer overflow in regular expression compiler leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10543)
- perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to integer overflow leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10878)
- perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to recursive S_study_chunk() calls leads to DoS (CVE-2020-12723)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?69f683c0
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/185.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 146100
File Name: centos_RHSA-2021-0343.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 2/3/2021
Updated: 12/5/2022
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.7
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-2020-10878
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.6
Temporal Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-tests, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-macros
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2020