Oracle Linux 9 : perl (ELSA-2024-2228)

high Nessus Plugin ID 195048

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2228 advisory.

- A vulnerability was found in perl. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.
(CVE-2023-47038)

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-2024-2228.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 195048

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2228.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2024

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:/a:oracle:linux:9:4:appstream_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-autoloader, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-autosplit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-b, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-benchmark, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-class-struct, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-config-extensions, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-dbm_filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-dirhandle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-dumpvalue, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-dynaloader, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-english, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-extutils-constant, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-fcntl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-basename, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-compare, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-copy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-dosglob, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-find, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-file-stat, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-filecache, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-filehandle, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-findbin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-gdbm_file, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-getopt-std, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hash-util, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hash-util-fieldhash, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-i18n-collate, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-i18n-langtags, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-i18n-langinfo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-ipc-open3, 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-ndbm_file, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-next, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-net, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-odbm_file, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-opcode, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-posix, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-pod-functions, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-safe, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-search-dict, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-selectsaver, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-symbol, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-hostname, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-term-complete, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-term-readline, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-text-abbrev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-thread, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-thread-semaphore, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-tie, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-tie-file, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-tie-memoize, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-time, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-unicode-ucd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-user-pwent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-autouse, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-blib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-debugger, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-deprecate, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-diagnostics, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-encoding-warnings, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-fields, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-filetest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-if, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-less, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-lib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-locale, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-meta-notation, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-mro, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-overload, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-overloading, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-ph, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sigtrap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sort, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-subs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-vars, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-vmsish

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: 5/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47038