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RHEL 7 : perl (RHSA-2021:1032)
high Nessus Plugin ID 148889
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1032 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10543
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10878
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12723
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1032
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1837975
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 148889
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1032.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/21/2021
Updated: 5/24/2023
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus 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:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-escapes, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020