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Fedora 41 : perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer / polymake (2025-9988949ccd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 246916

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-9988949ccd advisory.

 Updated perl to version 5.40.3 https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod




Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-9988949ccd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 246916

File Name: fedora_2025-9988949ccd.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2025

Updated: 8/9/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-par-packer, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:polymake, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-devel-cover

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2025

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