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CentOS 8 : perl (CESA-2021:1678)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149759

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:1678 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)

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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1678

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149759

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-1678.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 12/29/2023

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: 6.2

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: 8

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10543, CVE-2020-10878

RHSA: 2021:1678