SUSE SLES15 Security Update : perl (SUSE-SU-2024:1630-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 197050

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1630-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-6913: Fixed space calculation issues in pp_pack.c (bsc#1082216)
- CVE-2018-6798: Fixed heap buffer overflow in regexec.c (bsc#1082233)
- CVE-2023-31484: Enabled TLS certificate verification in CPAN (bsc#1210999)
- CVE-2017-6512: Fixed File::Path rmtree/remove_tree race condition (bsc#1047178)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 perl, perl-base, perl-base-32bit and / or perl-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 197050

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1630-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/15/2024

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-base-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6512, CVE-2018-6798, CVE-2018-6913, CVE-2023-31484

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1630-1

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