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RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-perl524-perl (RHSA-2018:1192)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194024

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-perl524-perl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1192 advisory.

 - perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c (CVE-2018-6797)

 - perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c (CVE-2018-6798)

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 RHEL rh-perl524-perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1192.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547779

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547783

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c4a602b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194024

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1192.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2018-6797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigint-fastcalc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigrat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-bignum, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-perl524-perl-utils

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: 4/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6797, CVE-2018-6798

CWE: 125, 787

RHSA: 2018:1192