Oracle Linux 8 : perl (ELSA-2021-0557)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146583

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0557 advisory.

- regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls. (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

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-0557.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 146583

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-0557.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2021

Updated: 2/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12723

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12723