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RHEL 10 : perl (RHSA-2025:7500)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237809

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7500 advisory.

 Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

 Security Fix(es):

 * perl: Perl 5.34, 5.36, 5.38 and 5.40 are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when transliterating non- ASCII bytes (CVE-2024-56406)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7500.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359290

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8f8b352

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7500

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237809

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7500.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2025

Updated: 6/5/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56406

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-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-meta-notation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-odbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-benchmark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selectsaver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filetest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langinfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vars, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-debugger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filehandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sigtrap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-if, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dirhandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-english, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autoloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fields, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-open3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-functions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-config-extensions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-deprecate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dumpvalue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-class-struct, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dynaloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-unicode-ucd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-opcode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overloading, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-diagnostics, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-getopt-std, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-findbin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sys-hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-posix, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-blib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-compare, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-subs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-search-dict, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-next, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-abbrev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fcntl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ndbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-copy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-stat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-constant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-collate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-safe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util-fieldhash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-net, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread-semaphore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-less, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-dosglob, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-basename, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filecache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-find, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-readline, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autouse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langtags, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-symbol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overload, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autosplit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sort, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vmsish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-user-pwent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-complete, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dbm_filter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-gdbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-mro, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encoding-warnings

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: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56406

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2025:7500